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Native Tuatara at Sanctuary Mountain
Footwhistle guided Tour, Waitomo
Sanctuary Mountain

Sanctuary Mountain (Mt Maungatautari) & Waitomo Luxury Day tour from Auckland

By Zest Tours
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Free cancellation available
Price is CA $505 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 12h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview

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.

Activity location

  • St Andrews Anglican Church
    • 85 Hamilton Road
    • 3434, Cambridge, Waikato, New Zealand

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • St Andrews Anglican Church
    • 85 Hamilton Road
    • 3434, Cambridge, Waikato, New Zealand

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Sanctuary Mountain (Mt Maungatautari) & Waitomo Luxury Day tour from Auckland
  • Activity duration is 12 hours12h12h
  • English

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.

Language options: English
Starting time: 7:15am
Price details
CA $505.15 x 2 AdultsCA $1,010.30
Total
Price is CA $1,010.30
Until Fri, 3 May

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedBottled water
  • What's includedWhat's includedPicnic lunch
  • What's includedWhat's includedLunch
  • What's includedWhat's includedSanctuary Mountain & guided tour
  • What's includedWhat's includedWaitomo - Footwhistle guided tour
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedExcess luggage charges (where applicable)

Know before you book

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Specialised infant seats are available
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult

Activity itinerary

St Andrews Anglican Church
  • 10m
Departing 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 (Pass by)
Then 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
  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket included
Maungatautari. 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 i-SITE Visitor Information Centre (Pass by)
Our 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
  • 1h 15m
  • Admission ticket included
At Waitomo we take the Footwhistle guided tour comprising of an hour 15 mins duration (Note; This is a dry tour). A more personalised 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!

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESSt Andrews Anglican Church
    • 85 Hamilton Road
    • 3434, Cambridge, Waikato, New Zealand

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLESt Andrews Anglican Church
    • 85 Hamilton Road
    • 3434, Cambridge, Waikato, New Zealand

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