From $ per person Double Occupancy
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Day One: Auckland
Arrive Auckland. Take some time to explore this city, the biggest in New Zealand.
Optional Highlights include; SkyCity, Kelly Tarltons Antarctic Experience and Underwater World, Viaduct Harbour and a trip to Waiheke Island if time permits.
Accommodation: central Auckland.
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Day Two: Auckland - Paihia
Be picked up from your accommodation in Auckland. Take a two day guided tour of the beautiful Bay of Islands. Tour includes:
- Deluxe transport from Auckland to Paihia
- Visit to Waitangi Treaty House - Guided Tour
Spend the day on a Cruise. Choose 1 of these:-
Cape Brett 'Hole in the Rock' and Kerikeri Tour
Excitor Fast boat Adventures- High speed sailing Catamaran
- Deluxe transport from Paihia to Auckland
- 1 night hotel accommodation in Paihia
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Day Three: Paihia – Auckland
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Day Four: Auckland - Rotorua
Travel from Auckland to Rotorua First Class Coach.
Sight seeing highlights include
- Auckland's south suburbs, through horticulture farmland of Bombay Hills to dairy district of Waikato.
- Rangiriri Battle Site Heritage centre - AV presentation about Maori warriors heroic stand in 1863
- Waikato River - New Zealand's longest river
- Ngaruawahia - rich in Maori history and home of the Maori Queen
- Waitomo Caves - world famous or spectacular limestone formations and million year old caverns.
Rotorua optional highlights include; Agrodome, Whakarewarewa Thermal Area, Rainbow Springs and Skyline Skyrides Gonodola and Luge.
Accommodation: central Rotoura |
Day five: Rotorua - Wellington
Travel from Rotorua to Wellington on First Class Coach
Sightseeing Highlights include
- Travel only the desert road through the Rangipo desert. Temperature extremes in the eastern side of the volcanoes have produced a desolate landscape of gravel fields and hardy alpine vegetation.
- In the middle of the desert you will stop to view the three volcanoes - Mount Tongariro, Mr Ngauruhoe and Mount Ruapehu.
- Travel through the beautiful Wairarapa countryside before finishing up in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington.
Wellington optional highlights include; Te Papa the museum on NZ, the Botanical Gardens and a tour of parliament.
Accommodation: central Wellington |
Day six: Wellington - Picton - Christchurch
Ferry line - Take the three-hour cruise from Wellington to Picton and enjoy the scenery of the Marlborough Sounds. Once off the ferry catch the TranzCoastal from Picton to Christchurch.
Accommodation: central Christchurch.
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Day seven: Christchurch
Have time to explore the city and see the sites. Sites include Bontanic Gardens, Art Centre, Art Gallery, Gondola, Punting on the Avon.
Accommodation: central Christchurch
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Day eight: Christchurch - Greymouth
Take the Transalpine train to Greymouth, this train journey rates as one of the top 5 train trips in the world!
Accommodation: central Greymouth
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Day nine: Greymouth - Franz Josef
Catch Intercity bus from Greymouth to Franz Josef.
Accommodation: central Franz Josef
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Day ten: Franz Josef
Accommodation: central Franz Josef
Activities: Glacier Experience |
Day eleven: Franz Josef - Queenstown
Take Intercity bus from Franz Josef to Queenstown.
Accommodation: central Queenstow |
Day twelve: Queenstown
From Queenstown in Milford, Air Milford offers flight from Queenstown to and from Milford Sound; the Southern Fiords; Alps and Glaciers, the historic Central Otago gold mining town of St Bathans, the Waiorau Snow Farm (5000ft elevation), several river valleys suitable for fishing, hunting and tramping, and virtually anywhere else in the country you may wish to visit". Accommodation: central Queenstown.
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Day thirteen: Queenstown - Christchurch
Transport back from Queenstown to Christchurch on First Class coach.
Sightseeing Highlights include:
- Crossing the Lindis Pass, from Queenstown through the rugged Lindis Pass.
- Manmade hydro lake of Lake Ruataniwha
- Lake Pukaki and the Mouth Cook National Heritage Park
- Church of the Good Shepherd and the statue of the collie dog
- Arid MacKenzie Basin and azure Lake Tekapo
- Cross the Southern Alps at Burkes Pass
- Traverse the Canterbury Plains - the largest area of flat land in the country.
Accommodation: central Christchurch |
Day fourteen: Christchurch
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