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New Zealand Farm Tour
offered by supplier M19727 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 10
day(s)
Group Size: 2
- 4
people
Destination(s):
New Zealand
Specialty Categories:
Farm Stay & Ranching
Sightseeing
Season: January - December
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: Yes
Minimum Per Person Price: 8214 New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
Maximum Per Person Price: 8214 New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
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Tour includes visiting a Dairy Farm,a sheep and beef farm, dry land farms being converted to irrigation and a cropping farm, a visit to a Salmon Farm. A trip into the heart of Fiordland National Park to Milford Sound and the Underwater Observatory and a free day in the action packed capital of Queenstown. So if you think you have been leaning on the fence to long, come and join our farm tour for a well deserved break and let us do the driving.
Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: You will be met at Christchurch International Airport and taken to your accommodation in the city where you will be briefed on the tour. Sightseeing is available if time allows.
Day 2: We journey south through the Canterbury Plains to Waimate for lunch and then travel inland to Hakateramea, cross the mighty Waitaki River to Kurow and then onto Duntroon to see the "Vanished World of Fossils". Also we have the opportunity to visit a cropping and dairy farms. Our farmstay accommodation is in the Oamaru area.
Day 3: Today we journey through to Dunedin, stopping off at the Moeraki Boulders and the fishing village of Moeraki. On arriving in Dunedin we journey out onto the Otago Peninsula to view the Royal Albatross Colony. We also visit Nature's Wonderland, a coastal tour of viewing seals, penguins and ocean going birdlife. we visit New Zealand's only castle "Larnach Castle". Our accommodation is in Larnach Lodge.
Day 4: From Dunedin we journey through rolling rural country of a mix of sheep and beef farming to cropping and dairying to our next stop Balclutha. From here we travel toward the South East Coast of the South Island known as the Catlin's. You will see golden beaches, the southern most point of the South Island at Slope Point, the Cathedral Caves (viewable only at low tides.) Waterfalls, bush walks and lakes. See New Zealand's traditional cribs (small holiday houses) on the beach front. A Petrified Forest and more. Our accommodation is in the Catlin's area in Farmstay Accommodation and tour of the sheep farm.
Day 5: On leaving the Catlin's we travel into Eastern Southland and visit a sheep and beef farm where they use cashmere goats as a weed control tool controlling pasture weeds, and on the rougher ground using the goats for gorse and broom control. We also visit a dairy farm. On both farms you will have the opportunity to talk with the farmer and discuss his farming operation. Our accommodation is a Farmstay or similar.
Day 6: Today we travel to Bluff, the end of State Highway One that runs the length of New Zealand. From here we travel through Invercargill and Oreti Beach where Burt Munro (the film The Worlds Fastest Indian) raced and fine tuned his Indian Special motor cycle. Then on round the Southern Coast Route to Manapouri. Our accommodation is on the water front at Lake Manapouri.
Day 7: Today we journey through to Milford Sound via Te Anau, through the Eglington Valley, Homer Tunnel and into Milford Sound. Here we join a cruise on Milford Sound to the outer Fiord and also visit an underwater observatory. This is spectacular country, in my view only paralleld to the fiords of Norway and Sweden. Our farmstay accommodation is in Te Anau.
Day 8: It's onto Queenstown today where you can explore all the town and cafe scene's, activities such as jet boating, heli sight seeing, gondola to Bob's Peak overlooking Queenstown, bungy jumping or just strolling around the shops. Perhaps a cruise on the Lady of the Lake The TSS Earnslaw Steam Ship across the lake to Walter Peak Station for an evening meal. Maybe treat someone special to a spa and massage. All activities on this day are not included in the tour price. Our accommodation is in Queenstown.
Day 9: Today we visit Gibbston Valley Wines for wine tasting and a tour of the vineyard. Then it's over the Lindis Pass into the McKenzie Basin, Omarama, Twizel and onto the Hermitage at Mt Cook to our accommodation. While at the Hermitage, the optional activities you have are kayaking at the foot of the Tasman glacier, or take a ski plane up onto the Tasman Glacier and land on the snow, along with closeup views of New Zealand's tallest mountain Mt Cook. Once again these optional activities are not included in the price of the tour. Our accommodation is at the Hermitage.
Day 10: Our last day of the tour takes us back to Christchurch via the McKenzie Basin and along the foothills of the Southern Alps. We visit Mt Cook Salmon Farm where you will see salmon being farmed in one of the Hydro Channels serving the Waitaki Power System.
Accommodation in Christchurch.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Price Excludes:
- Air travel
- Personal insurance
- Personal expenses.
Also see tour packages in:
Australia and Oceania
New Zealand
Outdoor: Land Rambler
Farm Stay & Ranching
Sightseeing
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