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TOUR ACTIVITIES:
Sailing on Auckland Harbour
Auckland is called the City of Sails and this 1.5 hours shows you why! This part of the
trip used to be where we showed off our Americas Cup prowess, but now we don't talk about
that! A great ice breaker for what follows.
4WD self drive experiences
Ever wondered about all this 4WD Off-roading stuff? Here is your chance to try it out.
Alternating with a buddy, you get to drive your own 4 x4 through a myriad of trails as the
convoy explores the purpose made bush tracks with the occassional spectacular adrenaline
diversion enroute.
Visit a living, breathing Volcanic Island
49 kms off-shore is a smoking, hissing island, the preverbal weak point in the earths
crust. Complete with hard hat and packed lunch we have a day long exploratory trip on this
bundle of excitement and its lunar like landscape.
Experience one of NZ? cultural icons with a Maori concert & Hangi
on a genuine Marae
Armed with our guides briefing on the cultural significance of the greeting and protocol,
we join a small audience for a traditional challenge and welcome onto a Maori Marae. Our
tribe needs to come together with our own song before relaxing to the entertainment of a
concert followed by a Maori feast. Food cooked in a hot pit over 3 hours is uncovered and
presented in the dining hall for your enjoyment.
Experience the thrill of a white water rafting trip or a drift
trip in the heartland of Lord of the Rings country
If you enjoyed the scenery of Lord of the Rings with the huge canyons carved in the
mudstone of the central North Island. This has created two diverse rafting opportunities
for you to chose from. Try the grade 5 white water of the upper gorge or the sedate drift
trip of the lower river with one of NZ? best rafting companies.
Visit Kapiti Island our predator free conservation icon
After an exhaustive programme to eradacte all introduced wildlife from Kapiti Island, the
Department of Conservation have set about re-colonising the island with endangered
birdlife. Be guided around the island by a local nature guide, who is able to give an
insight into the Maori and European history of the region. The birdlife is prolific and
this day offers us one of the few opportunities to see the land as it was before the
arrival of man in New Zealand.
Relax on the Interisland ferry across to the South Island and
then water taxi to your waterfront lodge
No better way to enjoy the crossing between the two islands. Once clear of Cook Strait we
enter the sheltered waters of the Queens Charlotte Sound, home to our next two nights
adventures. Picton at the end of the sound is our destinaton before boarding a second water
taxi and being whisked up to our waiting lodge.
Choose between a full day coastal hike or a full day sea kayak
experience
From the lodge we have a number of choices. A full day sea kayaking is available from
further down the sound, or a days walking on the Queen Charlotte Sound walkway around the
coast. Of course the chance to sit on the deck and sunbath and swim can be seen by some as
an attractive choice as well!
Explore a West Coast cave and ride the underground river on a
tube
Underworld rafting is an oppportunity to enjoy the thrill of caving with a float trip down
the underground river until it emerges into the surrounding rainforest. Complete with wet
suit and headlamp this is an awesome way to explore an underground wonderland.
Crunch across the surface of a glacier as it races to the coast
at centimeters per day!
Do you want ice with that? Experience walking on 1000 year old ice as it races to the sea.
This is a 4 hour round trip starting from the glacier snout and hiking through the
surrounding rainforest before descending onto the ice with our guide. We stay clear of any
big holes and have a fun time looking for hobbits and other rare creatures.
Visit remote Fiordland by jetboat.
What better way to enjoy the remote, rugged scenery of the Southern Alps than by jet boat?
From where the river ens at the Tasman sea, to the turn around point, our purpose built
jetboat is the perfect vehicle to enjoy the surrounding mountains and the rolling, tumbling
rapids.
Relax in Queenstown home of Adventure - as well as some of the
worlds best Pinot Noirs
There has to be one day off on your holiday, and this is it! Queenstown has not earned the
reputation as the Adventure Capital of NZ without good reason! Choose from the extensive
adventure menu on tap; from Bungy jumping off the original 42m Kawarau Bridge, or the knee
trembling, mouth so dry I can't spit, 135m Nevis jump, to down hill Mt Biking, paragliding,
hangliding, fly by wire, ..... you see what we mean, and we have only scratched the surface
of whats available! Or if you want, you can just relax in the coffee shops, catching up on
your post cards or take a wine tour and taste some of NZ? best Pinot Noir's.
Hike beneath NZ? highest mountains in the heart of the Southern
Alps
Mt Cook/ Aorangi is our highest mountain at 3754 metres. It dominates the skyline of Park.
We hike up the Hooker valley to the west, beneath the ice cliffs of Mt Sefton, to the
glacial lake which has formed at the foot of the Hooker Glaicer.
Spend a night with a local farming family on their farm.
As we all know, all good things do eventually come to an end! Still, its hard to imagine a
better way of spending it than with a local farming family on their farm, situated near the
small rural town of Fairlie. Here enjoy the ambience of being on a ?eal·working farm, meet
the animals, and perhaps help out in the shearing shed or feeding out.
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