New Zealand Short Break

More ideas for short breaks in New Zealand

Need to get away for a few days? Spend quality time with a group of friends and love ones? Take time out from everyday life to meet a new challenge? Here's some great New Zealand short break ideas to get you thinking. Take advantage of the low airfares, add a couple of nights accommodation and you are all set for a great break!

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Abel Tasman
Wilson's Abel Tasman 2, 3 & 5 day sea kayaking
2, 3 & 5 day Abel Tasman overnight trips. Walking and Guided sea kayaking in Abel Tasman National Park with Wilson's, whose family has been operating in this region for 30 years, gives you the benefit of their vast experience.
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Abel Tasman
Wilson's Abel Tasman Track 2, 3 & 5 day guided walks
Wilson's guided walks in Abel Tasman National Park offer freedom and flexibility in this gentle, paradise where lush native forests give way to golden sands and azure water. The highest number of sunshine hours in New Zealand with sea breezes in summer and calm, crisp days in winter makes walking a pleasure, year-round.
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Marlborough Sounds
Wilderness Guides Queen Charlotte Track Guided 1 - 5 day walks
Wilderness Guides offer the best guided walking and independent hiking packages to experience the Queen Charlotte Track
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Otago Rail Trail
Trail Journeys Central Otago Rail Trail
The Otago Central Rail Trail is a year-round recreational facility. Modeled on Rails to Trails projects elsewhere in the world, the Rail Trail follows the former Otago Central Branch railway line from Middlemarch to Clyde. Trail Journeys offer one day supported trips from Queenstown, Clyde or Dunedin and Four Day Guided Trips from Queenstown and Dunedin
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Queenstown
Hollyford Track guided 3 day walk
The Hollyford 3 Day Wilderness Journey is an all-inclusive spectacular walk from the mountains to the sea that is suitable for a wide range of fitness levels. Unlike any other walk, the scenery is geologically spectacular and ever changing - snow capped mountains, glaciers, rainforests, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, reefs, sand dunes and surf.
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Queenstown
Landsborough River 3 day guided rafting trip
The Landsborough River is unique, running 60kms parallel to New Zealand’s Southern Alps before meeting the sea at Haast in South Westland - a World Heritage Area. Its upper reaches are protected wilderness and provide spectacular glaciers, bush, river and mountain scenery.
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Queenstown
Milford Track Guided 5 day walk
Traversing the heart of New Zealand's wild fiord country, the Milford Track has long been described as "the finest walk in the world". Since Quintin Mackinnon pioneered the route in 1888, everyone from hardened trekkers to novices sporting their first pair of boots have taken up the challenge of the Milford Track.
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Queenstown
Routeburn Track Guided 3 day walk
The Routeburn Track Guided Walk is a 3 day / 2 night Queenstown to Queenstown all-inclusive guided walk traversing sections of the Fiordland and Mount Aspiring National Parks.
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Rotorua
Treetops Lodge and Estate
Come and share in the dream, one man's dream to preserve a piece of paradise for people to enjoy for generations. "Now this was not to be just any ordinary lodge. With my love of nature, it was my dream that perhaps we could build a sanctuary.... A place that reflected the very best of what there was to offer-where all could come and appreciate the beauty of nature, be refreshed and depart a little brighter for the experience." John Sax
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Te Anau
Fiordland Wilderness Guides
FIORDLAND - a sea kayaker's wilderness. Sea kayaking is the natural way to experience the essential spirit of this stunning, primeval, intense wilderness and we want to take you on a real sea kayaking adventure into this wilderness as we personally do it - in a small group, with friends exploring in our kayaks, experiencing its wildness, working with nature, becoming a part of the sea and landscape on its terms.
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