08 Day Wine,adventure and Scenic Flights

Welcome to Auckland. On arrival you will be picked up at the airport and transferred to your first night’s accommodation. 

Your detailed tour information pack will be given to you once you arrive at your accommodation.

Accommodation : Grand Millennium Auckland

Today in the morning you will take a full day tour in the Waiheke Island, experience three of the most iconic Waiheke vineyards - Mudbrick, Cable Bay and Te Motu. Enjoy panoramic views and sip your way through the island's many varietals, while learning about the mild micro-climate that allows vines to thrive.

Activity : Waiheke Island Tour

Accommodation : Grand Millennium

Once you've collected your car first thing in the airport, your self drive tour around the South Island of New Zealand can commence, as you'll cross the expansive Canterbury plains on your way to Mt Cook. The route via Geraldine is the more scenic option, just before entering McKenzie Country. The Southern Alps seem to be ever increasing in size as you approach closer, and leaving a bigger impression as you carry on.

Lake Tekapo will leave you dazzled with its remarkable turquoise coloured water against the backdrop of the Southern Alps. The picturesque Church of the Good Shepherd is a great place for great photo opportunities, but please note that photos are not allowed inside the church.

Once you arrive at Lake Pukaki, Mt Cook dominates the landscape, and how! It will leave a memorable impression, and the drive along the lake with its green and turquoise water is nothing but spectacular. This is New Zealand driving at its best!

Accommodation : Mt. Cook Lodge

Driving distance : 324 km - Driving time : approximately  4 hrs 8 mins 

Today you will stay in Mount Cook, in the morning you will have one of the best activities the Tasma Heli Hike . You’ll fly from Mount Cook airport over the gorgeous Tasman Glacier Lake and ice formations on the lower reaches of the Glacier to a location 3000m above sea level and assessed on the day to be safe. Venture on to the surprisingly undulating ice terrain in the shadow of the highest peaks of the Southern Alps (Aoraki and Mount Tasman); equipped with glacier boots and crampons and spend the next 2 hours in another world in the mountains. On the return flight home, you’ll fly close by the massive 1,000 metre high (3,200 feet) Hochstetter Icefall on the eastern face of Aoraki/Mt Cook.

Activity : Tasma Heli Hike

Accommodation : Mt. Cook Lodge.

As the road takes you further south, you will cross the the Lindis Pass, one of the highest roads in New Zealand. The contrast in scenery will be noticeable as you leave the McKenzie Country and enter Otago.  

Wanaka town is nestled below towering mountains, and is a little bit quieter than its neighbour Queenstown. In winters skiers from all over the world flock here for its great skiing, and in summer the impressive mountains provide for a range of adventure activities. You will return to this beautiful town in a few days, but your journey continues to the adventure capital of the world, Queenstown!

Queenstown is synonymous with adventure, and often labelled the "adventure capital of the world". Regardless of the season, Queenstown gets your adrenaline flowing year round, and the options are endless. Want to throw yourself out of a plane in amazing scenery, jump off a bridge in the birthplace of Bungy, jetboat, raft down a river, you name it...Queenstown has it all. 

The afternoon is yours to enjoy. Let us know if you would like us to book one of the numerous adventure activities.

Accommodation : Millennium Queenstown

Driving distance : 255 km - Driving time : approximately  3 hrs 12 mins 

Today you will take a tour to do the Milford Sound by fly and cruise.

The flight from Queenstown to Milford Sound is an unforgettable insight into a natural realm at its unspoilt best. Fly above the rugged backcountry of Central Otago, before heading westward to where the glacial-fed rivers empty into Lake Wakatipu. As you cross over into the Fiordland National Park, you’ll discover an untouched world of peaks and valleys, where mountains reach into the sea – a landscape forged by the rapid retreat of glaciers.

Upon landing in Milford Sound, join your purpose-built small boat to explore the famous fiord on a two-hour journey of discovery. View cascading waterfalls, immense rock faces, unique wildlife and then voyage out past St Anne's Lighthouse to the Tasman Sea. Listen to the informative commentary, and interact with our hosts while enjoying the complimentary tea, coffee and water on-board. Picnic lunches are available .

Complete your journey with a helicopter flight back to Queenstown, which includes an exclusive alpine snow landing for the ultimate Fiordland experience.

Activity : Milford Fly cruise Fly

Accommodation : Millennium Queenstown

Today is your last day of activities,you will experience the Skydiving and the Bungy Nevis (the Highest in NZ)

The skydiving Once you decide to #embracethefear with  the best place to skydive in New Zealand. The skydive host will assist you to gear up and you will be briefed by one of the Tandem Masters. Your flight to altitude will take you high above the Wakatipu basin, where you will have a birds eye view of our dramatic mountains and lakes. Jumping directly above our drop zone you will experience freefall of up to 60 seconds before your Tandem Master deploys the parachute and together you glide back to earth. The canopy ride takes approximately 5 minutes. ( This activity you will do it in the morning),and later you will do the Bungy Nevis,Introducing the Most Famous Swing in the World - and we don’t say that lightly. It’s big, it’s bad and it’s loud (if you consider every shriek of every person who’s had a go). Swing by yourself or tandem with a friend - forwards, backwards, upside down - you choose. You’ll complete the 300m arc, bellowing at the top of your lungs, wanting to do it all over again once you’re back on solid ground.

Activities : Skydiving & Bungy Nevis

Accommodation : Millennium Queenstown

Today is your last day in Queenstown, you will have the morning free and then you will have to drop back your rental car.

We hope to see you again and have a save flight home !