Travel from Auckland through to Christchurch on our small group tour, meeting the friendly locals and ticking off those bucket list highlights as you go. 

Our fully guided Adventure tours include PRIVATE COACH TRANSPORT, some meals and activities but also leave room for optional extras so you can make the adventure your own! 

These tours are more in line with Stray's traditional backpacker product and slightly longer than our Select Tours.

Tours also include comfortable dorm-style accommodation with daily breakfast plus some extra meals so travellers can budget more easily, and they don't have to worry about peak periods and full accommodations!

Highlights:

• Dig yourselves an all-natural hot pool in the sand at Hot Water Beach
• Relax at the beach, explore the world-famous Cathedral Cove and stay beachside in the classic kiwi cabins at Hahei Beach
• Explore Middle Earth as you visit the Hobbiton Movie set and see bubbling mud pools and geysers in Rotorua.
• Take a scenic walk through the Karangahake Gorge and the Whakarewarewa Redwood Forest.
• Explore Kuirau Park in Rotorua where we’ll see some geothermal activity, boiling mud pools and steaming lakes!
• Experience life with a modern Maori family in an idyllic lakeside location as you feast on a traditional Hangi meal and play traditional games
• Have a soak in the naturally hot Kerosene Creek and visit the mighty Huka Falls
• Hike the incredible, other-worldly Tongariro Alpine Crossing, one of the most famous one-day walks in the world
• Spend two days in paradise as you explore the golden beaches of the Abel Tasman National Park.
• Visit Punakaiki Pancake Rocks and blowholes before staying in the rainforest at Franz Joseph 
• Enjoy at stop at the amazing Lake Matheson, known as the mirror-lake
• Look out for the impressive Mitre Peak, lush rainforests, waterfalls and wildlife during a day trip to the iconic Milford Sound
• Discover the wonders of tātai aroraki (Māori astronomy) and its central role in the Māori view of the universe at the Dark Sky Project centre.
• Explore the city and then enjoy the quality hospitality at newly renovated Drifter Christchurch complete with its own bar.
• Relax in quality accommodation at Haka House Auckland, Queenstown & Tekapo.
• Free time in Hahei, Wellington, Franz Joseph, Queenstown & Lake Tekapo.

Included:

• Experienced tour guide
• Private coach transport
• 20 days of once in a lifetime experience
• 19 nights’ accommodation (dorm-style)
• 19 Breakfasts, 2 Dinners 
• Inter-island ferry
• Hahei, Catherdral Cove & Hot Water Beach
• Karangahake Gorge 
• Hobbiton movie set tour
• Kuirau Park - boiling mud pools & geothermal activity 
• Lake Aniwhenua Cultural Experience
• Huka Falls
• Transfers for the Tongariro Alpine Crossing
• Abel Tasman National Park tracks and water taxi
• Trip to Punakaiki Pancake Rocks & blowholes 
• Visit Franz Josef Glacier township
• Lake Matheson (mirror lake) visit 
• Day trip and Cruise to the Milford Sound
• Dark Sky Experience Tekapo
• Hooker Valley Trek Mt. Cook