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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Travel
Louise Southerden

‘It just blew me away’: the new Gidjuum Gulganyi Walk in northern NSW follows ancient trails

Minyon Falls on the Gidjuum Gulganyi Walk, NSW, Australia
‘This trail is part of our traditional pathways, like the highways we have today’ … Minyon Falls on the Gidjuum Gulganyi Walk. Photograph: D Parsons/DCCEEW

Ashley Moran clearly remembers the first time he completed the new four-day Gidjuum Gulganyi Walk in northern New South Wales, long before it opened to the public in April this year.

It was 2020 and the newest NSW Great Walk wasn’t even a track. “It had been pink-tagged by the trail construction company, but it was pretty arduous trying to navigate through dense rainforest and find those little pink ribbons,” he says.

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