Overnight Hike to Dundle Hill – waitomo NZ

Nature, dundle hill hut, hiking, waikato, outdoors. overnight hike

I would definately reccomend this overnight hike it cost us $80 a night each or you can pay $1200 a night to book out the whole place.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • The views from Dundle Hill cabin
  • Yoga in the sun in the morning
Nature, dundle hill hut, hiking, waikato, outdoors. overnight hike
  • Scrabble and wine at night by the fire
Nature, dundle hill hut, hiking, waikato, outdoors. overnight hike
scrabble and wine by the fire
  • Having the whole cabin to ourselves
  • The sunshine
Nature, dundle hill hut, hiking, waikato, outdoors. overnight hike
It’s nice to chill and do nothing sometimes
  • Feeding the eels
  • walking to the cave (off track) was awesome to see the huge stalactites
Nature, dundle hill hut, hiking, waikato, outdoors. overnight hike
The way to find the cave you can check this out on your way back on day two
  • Having pots, pans, plates, gas, pillows, and cookers already at the hut
  • Have access to showers(cold) and flushable toilet
  • To have safe drinking water at a hut (we didn’t have to boil it)
  • Having access to dry firewood 
  • Walking a different paths each day
  • Following the yellow markers was a bit of challenge sometimes but made it fun
Nature, dundle hill hut, hiking, waikato, outdoors. overnight hike
  • The drive to the start of thwas realively short from Raglan 1 hour 20 min
  • Trying freeze dried camping meals for the first time cottage pie and morican lamb so yum and so light to carry a must to take next time

Challenges

  • Kirsten getting shocked by the electric fence (was kinda funny)
  • the hill at the end to get to the cabin
Nature, dundle hill hut, hiking, waikato, outdoors. overnight hike
  • The walk out on the last day part of it was along a gravel road (we were just tired lol)
  • getting around the tree fallen over in the middle of the track we took a detour it was sweet az
  • Walking on a few paddocks where it was muddy and stock had made the ground hard to walk on

For more info here is the website https://www.dundlehill.com