Karamea

Karamea is at the top of the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Karamea is enveloped by the Kahurangi National Park on three sides and sealed in by the Tasman Sea. It is a region of great scenic beauty and ecological significance. 

Karamea's most famous attraction is one of New Zealand’s “Great Walks”  Heaphy Track,   The track traverses expansive tussock plains, beneath verdant rainforest, skirts palm-fringed white-sand beaches over mountain ranges, through dense beech groves and spectacular granite outcrops. 

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The Oparara Basin is also popular with visitors to Karamea. Walking tracks through enchanted, moss-adorned rainforest lead you to the Oparara Arch, making it the largest limestone arch in the Southern Hemisphere, the Moria Gate Arch, which is smaller but equally impressive, the spectacular Mirror Tarn, a lake of still water protected from the wind by dense beech forest that perfectly reflects the sky, and on to several easily accessible caves such as the Crazy Paving and Box Canyon Caves 

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