New Zealand : 4x4 Hike and Drive

Departures: Year Round Duration: 24 nights Price: from £1,967

This imaginative itinerary offers the very best of New Zealand, incorporating well-known sights, national parks and renowned hiking trails. With your own 4x4 vehicle you’ll discover New Zealand’s exciting back country and at the end of each day return to comfortable accommodation.

 
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Hike and Drive

The 25-day itinerary has been specially designed to include hikes in selected National Parks and we even arrange transportation for you to and from the start and end of the walks, so you don’t have to backtrack. To enjoy all the walks fully, you should be fit and ideally have previous mountain walking experience. However, the shorter walks can be enjoyed by most hikers. Even though some of the walking may be rough underfoot, at the end of each day you’ll return to a comfortable bed for the night, staying in a mix of hotels, motels, lodges, guesthouses and homestay.

You’ll visit the Coromandel Peninsula, Rotorua with its hot springs, wild Wanganui National Park, Queen Charlotte Sound, Abel Tasman National Park, Paparoa National Park, the Franz Josef Glacier and World Heritage forests, Queenstown, Te Anau and scenic Milford Sound – plus the cities of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

 

We pride ourselves on our ability to tailor-make holidays so if you cannot find exactly what you are looking for on this website, then let us find it for you. Most of our holidays can be adapted to suit your personal requirements or we can create a completely bespoke itinerary. If you would like to discuss your options further, please complete our enquiry form.



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