• Meet and greet on arrival and private transfer to your hotel. The rest of the day free at leisure.

• Join the Great Sights coach to Waitomo to tour the famous Waitomo Caves and a short boat ride through the famous Glow-Worm grotto. See twinkling lights emitting from the ceiling like stars in a dark night.
• Then continue journey to the thermal resort of Rotorua.

• Join Great Sights coach for morning tour of Rotoruas top attractions Rainbow Spring to see wildlife and trout swimming in crystal clear water, enjoy an entertaining farm show at Agrodome highlighting sheep farming industry with sheep shearing demonstration.
• At Te Puia Thermal Reserve, you will see boiling mud pools and the mighty Pohutu geyser.
• Other sights in Rotorua include the lakeside boulevard and the iconic Government Gardens.
• In the afternoon on board the coach as we cross the Central North Island and enter Middle-earth! Just outside the rural township of Matamata is the private farm that was transformed into The Shire for Sir Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.

• Transfer to the airport. Fly to Queenstown
• Meet and greet on arrival and private transfer to your hotel. Rest of the day free at leisure.

• Today enjoy a day excursion by Great Sights coach to Milford Sound.
• Follow the Lake Wakatipu to Lumsden and then onward to Lake Te Anau. Enter Fiordland National Park along Eglington Valley and travel through Homer Tunnel to reach Milford Sounds. This is reputed as the prettiest drive in the country with amazing mountain scenery all the way. Enjoy the cruise on the spectacular world famous fiords dominated by Mitre Peak and Bowen Falls. 
• Retrace the journey back to Queenstown

• Enjoy a free day in Queenstown. Apart from beautiful scenery surrounding the resort, this is also the capital of adventure tourism.
• Why not try thrilling jet-boating or heart-stopping bungy jump? A gondola ride up Bobs Peak for panoramic view couple with a luge ride is recommended. Or simply relax and enjoy the scenery.

• Pick up by Great Sights coach and travel through the Central Otago region and on to Twizel. Follow the shores of Lake Pukaki to Mount Cook National Park Village. Set at the foothill of the Southern Alps, you have a close up view of Mt Cook New Zealands highest mountain. Visit the Church of the Good Shepherd at Lake Tekapo before travelling across the Canterbury Plains to arrive Christchurch in the evening.

• Enjoy free time for self arranged activities. Assemble as per agreed schedule for transfer services to airport, flight home.

About The Destination

Auckland, based around 2 large harbours, is a major city in the north of New Zealands North Island. In the centre, the iconic Sky Tower has views of Viaduct Harbour, which is full of superyachts and lined with bars and cafes. Auckland Domain, the citys oldest park, is based around an extinct volcano and home to the formal Wintergardens. Near Downtown, Mission Bay Beach has a seaside promenade.

Rotorua, a town set on its namesake lake on New Zealand's North Island, is renowned for its geothermal activity and Maori culture. In Te Puias Whakarewarewa Valley, there are bubbling mud pools and the 30m-tall Pohutu Geyser, which erupts many times daily. Its also home to a living Maori village and the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute, with traditional wood carving and weaving schools.

Queenstown, New Zealand, sits on the shores of the South Islands Lake Wakatipu, set against the dramatic Southern Alps. Renowned for adventure sports, its also a base for exploring the regions vineyards and historic mining towns. There's bungee jumping off Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge and jet-boating on the Shotover and Dart rivers. In winter, there's skiing on the slopes of The Remarkables and Coronet Peak.