Cultural

Experience the Best Rafting Adventures in Aotearoa, New Zealand with Rafting New Zealand (RNZ) - New Zealand's most awarded rafting company. A family run business established in 1991, RNZ prides itself on it's fun, friendly award winning service and impeccable safety record.With an all "Kiwi" professional guide team, Māori culture, the best raft base facilities and awesome whitewater rivers - a rafting adventure with RNZ is not to be missed! We raft daily, providing rafting adventures for all ages, abilities and expectations. Experience the thrill of rafting - Aotearoa styles!

Tēnā koutou katoa, nau mai haere mai. Custom transfers from Turangi to Tongariro National Park, Ruapehu and Taupō; Airport, Bus, Train. Tongariro Alpine Crossing transfers include our unique Māori cultural experience from our Rotoaira Homestead. Contact us and BOOK NOW. 

NEW Wairua Journey greets and welcomes you with quality assurance to enjoy and experience from the Maunga - Mount Tongariro - to the Awa - Whanganui River.  Authentic local’s will share with you their Culture, Knowledge and Stories along the way with photography opportunities and where memories will be made everlasting.

If you are contemplating visiting the Chatham Islands, Pitt Island is a must see. Flowerpot Bay Lodge offers beach front accommodation on Pitt Island for Couples, Families and Groups. Pitt Island is the second main inhabited Island in the Chatham Islands group, arguably one of the most remote holiday destinations in the world. Pitt Island is the first place in the world to see the sun rise each day and has some of the region’s most spectacular scenery, bird life, botany, geology, fishing, diving and hunting experiences.

Pitt Island is situated to the south of Chatham Island. Here you can you see such a variety of outstanding landscapes, gather and feast on seafood you can gather yourself without requiring a boat, hear your fill of birdsong then spot the source (sometimes endangered species), climb to the point that the sun shines first with the dawning of a new day, and from the same spot see the season's newest wandering albatross chick, lick your chops after a scumptious feed of wild pork, wild mutton or even weka! We can organise it for you.

The Bay of Islands is home to Taiamai Tours heritage journeys and the Ngapuhi nation is New Zealand’s largest tribal Māori group. Our interactive Waka (traditional Māori war canoe) experience provides a rare and unique insight into our ancient customs, rituals and traditions. We invite you to join us on a voyage into our world where you will gain an understanding of our culture. We share our histories and stories as we paddle our 50ft Waka Taua (War Canoe) together on the tidal estuaries of the Waitangi River.

Te Ana is focused on the ancient Maori rock drawing sites and rich tribal history of the Aoraki region. Established by Ngai Tahu, the largest Māori tribe in the South Island, this innovative not-for-profit venture has conservation at its heart with 100% of the profit returned to the protection of the rock art sites. Hosted by local Ngai Tahu guides, visitors explore the rock drawings through hosted experiences at the new Rock Art Centre in Timaru, and on guided tours to the region’s most iconic Māori rock art sites.

Canyonz has been operating for more than 10 years offering North Island guided canyoning trips through some of the most beautiful landscape New Zealand has to offer. The owners aim to make it not just the best canyoning trip in New Zealand, but the best 'true adventure' experience in the country! With their expertise and enthusiasm for outdoor adventure they will guarantee your experience is positively mind blowing. Canyonz is ranked one of the top activities in New Zealand on Tripadvisor and received a certificate of excellence three years in a row.

Wanaka River Journeys is a unique half day wilderness jet boating adventure. See hanging glaciers, LOTR locations and ice carved landscapes, enjoy local Māori culture, a 50 minute remote bush walk and optional glacier heli-flight from the jet boat in the Matukituki Valley, gateway to the Mount Aspiring National Park.

We offer a huge variety of jet boating and wilderness adventure packages in Fiordland and Southland. Experience New Zealand's most daring and exhilarating jet boat ride.

Hotel Chatham offers a wide range of accommodation options (hotel, motel, B&B, home stay and properties that would suit backpackers or groups). So whatever your accommodation requirements are, we should be able to meet them, short term or long term. Even better you will be greeted by friendly local staff who still offer that good old fashioned hospitality.