For Groups: Adventure Travel With the Experts!
Wild New Zealand Luxury Adventure
Discover the best of New Zealand's South Island in style while actively exploring mountains and sounds on both sides of the dramatic Southern Alps. Led by Kiwi naturalist guides, you journey through a spectacular range of landscapes and ecosystems in five national parks and World Heritage Sites that provided much of the Middle Earth setting for the Tolkien trilogy movies, Lord of the Rings.
- ACTIVITY: Walking & Hiking Vacations
- WHERE: New Zealand, OCEANIA
- AVAILABILITY: All year
- FROM: $10,250
- DURATION: 14 days
- AUDIENCE: For Groups: Adventure Travel With the Experts!, Vacations for Couples & Partners
- MEMBER'S WEBSITE: Wild New Zealand Luxury Adventure
New Zealand Cycling
Cycling New Zealand’s South Island is like soaring through a virtually untouched microcosm of the natural world. The region offers diverse ecosystems from the mountains to the shores and a mystical land where untamed rivers carve paths through lush rain forests. Don’t miss this experience to cycle “down under.”
- ACTIVITY: Biking & Cycling Vacations
- WHERE: New Zealand, OCEANIA
- AVAILABILITY: January, February, March, November, December
- FROM: $3,995
- DURATION: 14 days
- AUDIENCE: Solo Adventure Travel and Singles Vacations, Family Vacations & Adventure Travel, For Groups: Adventure Travel With the Experts!, Vacations for Couples & Partners
- MEMBER'S WEBSITE: New Zealand Bike Tour
New Zealand | South Island
New Zealand is one of the most diverse countries on the planet. Explore beautiful bays, pristine lakes, underground rivers, temperate rainforest, sprawling glaciers and a rugged, sheep-flecked coastline on this nine-day South Island adventure.
- Sea kayak the sheltered waters of Queen Charlotte Sound
- Float the Nile River by inner-tube through an intricate system of underground caves
- Explore Punakaiki’s famous Pancake Rocks and blowholes as you watch the sun set over the Tasman Sea
- Trek with crampons and walking sticks across a stretch of 600-foot-thick white ice on Fox Glacier, perched adjacent to a lush rainforest
- Zoom by jet boat over the shallow waters of the Landsborough River
- Picnic on the shores of the undiscovered Lake Wanaka and sip wine overlooking the mouth of Kawarau Gorge
- Hike, parapent and shop for Maori pounamu (greenstone) before sitting down to a fabulous dinner at a local restaurant in the thriving metropolis of Queenstown
- ACTIVITY: Multisport Trips - Active Adventure Vacations
- WHERE: New Zealand, OCEANIA
- AVAILABILITY: January, March, November, December
- FROM: $2,898
- DURATION: 9 days
- AUDIENCE: Solo Adventure Travel and Singles Vacations, For Groups: Adventure Travel With the Experts!, Vacations for Couples & Partners
- MEMBER'S WEBSITE: New Zealand Adventure Trips
New Zealand - Spectacular South Island
The stunning scenery of New Zealand's South Island is the backdrop for this Walk through the landscape that inspired Peter Jackson's film trilogy 'The Lord of the Rings'. Beginning our journey in the Queen Charlotte Sounds, we retrace the steps of Captain Cook, who landed in these Sounds in 1770. We witness basking seals at Kaikoura, close to the Southern Alps and sample fresh seafood from this quaint sea town. At Christchurch, we explore the Summit walkway on the Cashmere Hills, overlooking this beautiful city and meander along the pretty Flowers track set high above the seaside town of Sumner. There is also time to visit Christchurch's cultural precinct which contains art galleries, museum and an artist's market.
On the West Coast, we explore lush rainforests, river tracks through primeval landscapes and admire the strange, magical pancake rock formations at Punakaiki. The majesty and beauty of Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers heralds the end of our stay on the West Coast and we travel east to Wanaka to experience tranquil lakeside walks and also hike to the top of Mount Iron for unsurpassed views of Aspiring National Park. As our journey draws to a close, we visit Arrowtown, an old gold-mining town, walking the shady, river track. Then, we experience the dramatic landscape of Queenstown, surrounded by towering mountain ranges, taking in the Sunshine Valley walk, which follows the lake's shore.Our final destination takes us to the wonderful beech forest walk which is the Routeburn Track. Here, we sample a part of the walk and picnic in pristine surroundings,where forest, mountains and babbling rivers are our companions.
- ACTIVITY: Walking & Hiking Vacations, Eco-Travel & Cultural Exploration, Wildlife, Safaris and Photography Vacations
- WHERE: New Zealand, OCEANIA
- AVAILABILITY: February, March
- FROM: $4,995
- DURATION: 13 days
- AUDIENCE: For Groups: Adventure Travel With the Experts!, Vacations for Couples & Partners
- MEMBER'S WEBSITE: Luxury Walking Vacations - New Zealand
