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Exclusive Guided Trips

Book your own "DAY OF DISCOVERY" with your own personal guide....

At both Wilderness Lodges you can book in advance for a special day of nature discovery with your own nature guide.

Your programme will cater for your special interests and fitness levels with breaks for lunch, refreshments and relaxation during the day. Whether you are a bird or plant enthusiast or just want to enjoy a day of huge variety we can organise a special day just for you. 

A day of exclusive guiding particularly suits those who want to pack every experience into their Wilderness Lodge visit, who are older and who may want a more gentle programme. Conversely having your own guide will appeal to those who are younger/honeymooners and who want a very active and exciting programme. 

Guests enjoy a rest on a guided walk up the Otira Valley in Arthur's Pass National Park

 

The total charge for exclusive nature guiding for 1 or 2 persons at either Wilderness Lodge is NZ$ 650 per day. Additional persons are charged at NZ$ 150 per person.

 

This charge covers your personal guide, refreshments, picnic lunches and all equipment (canoes etc).

 

 

  

All you need to do when you make your booking is request “We would like 1 day's exclusive nature guiding at Wilderness Lodge ______ on _____ (date) and then you will enjoy a day to remember forever.

How a day of Wilderness Lodge exclusive guiding works...

 

The night before clients meet their nature guide, talk about their interests and fitness levels and discuss a range of options for the following day...

Guiding Day...

(This is a sample programme only and is easily adapted to fit in with the weather your interests and fitness level.)

8am Breakfast
9am

Depart Wilderness Lodge Arthur's Pass
 
  • Travel west on Highway 73 to the highest mountains of Arthur's Pass National Park
  • Enter the goblin forest of the Bealey Chasm and walk on a forest path up into stunted daisy forest, lakes and cascades beneath the snowfields of Mt. Rolleston
  • Morning refreshments are in a flower garden of Alpine Plants and cascades
11.30am
  • Explore the giant buttercup, edelweiss and snowberry herb fields of the high mountain basins of Arthur's Pass. Look for the kea ( the world's only alpine parrot)
12.30pm
  • Picnic lunch in a waterfall glade of Pegleg creek
1.30pm
  • Return east from Arthur's Pass to lovely Lake Sarah
  • Explore the lake in our minnow canoes to look for southern crested grebe, black swan, scaup and paradise duck High mountains surround this lake with views of snowfields and superb reflections for photos
4.30pm
  • Enjoy a gentle path up to the stunning viewpoint of Goldney Hill before returning to the Wilderness Lodge to meet our tame sheep and lambs
  • Relaxation at the Lodge

 


  Kea parrots are found only in the mountains of the South Island