Sanctuary Mountain (Mt Maungatautari) & Waitomo Luxury Day tour from Auckland in Auckland
Sanctuary Mountain (Mt Maungatautari) & Waitomo Luxury Day tour from Auckland
Tur Sehari ke Sanctuary Mountain (Gunung Maungatautari) & Waitomo Luxury dari Auckland
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Highlights
In this exclusive luxury tour you will visit one of the largest pest proof wildlife sanctuaries in the world as well as the Waitomo Caves, primarily famous for their limestone and glow worm caves, but for the more adrelalin charged, there is abseiling, blackwater rafting, and cave tubing. Not to mention an amazing variety of walks and trails. In the surrounding district the Otorohanga Kiwi House is the best place to see our native Kiwi bird and the Tuatara. The oldest living relative to the dinosaurs. There are also numerous private gardens open to the public.
Itinerary
St Andrews Anglican Church
10 minsAdmission Ticket FreeDeparting Auckland at 7am you will take a pleasant drive south over the Bombay Hills into the rich dairy farmland of the Waikato and beside the Waikato River before arriving in Cambridge, billed as our most English like town. With it’s stately oak trees, village green and historic St Andrew’s Anglican Church 1881. A morning tea/coffee break is taken here.Mighty River Domain, Lake Karapiro(Melintasi)
Admission Ticket FreeThen it's a short drive to lake Karapiro and the hydro-electric power station on the Waikato River for a photo stop, before crossing over the dam. The majestic 797m Mt Maungatautari (Sanctuary Mountain) looms in the background.Sanctuary Mountain - Maungatautari
1 hours 30 minsAdmission Ticket IncludedMaungatautari. A mainland ecological island created by a 47 km pest proof fence, the largest of it’s type in the world. Join an informative 1½ hour guided tour about many of New Zealand’s rarest and most endangered plants, insects, birds, fish, geckos, frogs, bats and flora that co-exist in this spectacular environment, on one of the many well maintained tracks to the 16m viewing tower. A picnic lunch is included here.Otorohanga isite Visitor Information Centre(Melintasi)
Admission Ticket FreeOur tour now takes us further south west into the King Country, named after the kingitanga (Maori King Movement) and it’s followers during the New Zealand Wars of the 1860’s and our “Kiwiana” (iconic NZ) town of Otorohanga, to Waitomo.Footwhistle Glowworm Cave
1 hours 15 minsAdmission Ticket IncludedAt Waitomo we take the Footwhistle guided tour comprising of an hour 15 mins duration (Note; This is a dry tour). A more personalized experience with no more than twelve in the group, where you are able to get right up close to the glow worms (Arachnocampa) and take photos!
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