New Zealand Wildlife Packages

Top 5 Wildlife Tours in New Zealand

• Penguin Place Tour, South Island: This place gives you an opportunity to attend a conversation programme and allows you to quietly look and photograph beautiful penguins living in their small little world here; they have unique systems and tunnels which you go through while on this tour. It is private conservation so it has limited visitors at a time, you can even spot the yellow-eyed penguins here which is an endangered species right now.
• Whale Watching, Kaikoura: This place at Kaikoura, provides you with a close encounter with the largest mammal, there is the Giant Sperm whale that resides here and you can see it all year along. You will even get to witness the Fur seals, Dusky Dolphins and endangered Albatross here. If you are lucky you might even witness the Blue whales, pilot whales that migrate here.
• Dolphin Eco Experience: At Paihia, in the bay of islands, you get to go on a once in a lifetime adventure, which is a chance to swim with dolphins in a natural environment. A cruise would take you the middle of the waters and you can join the cute dolphins in the bay and go on an amazing snorkeling adventure and get to see the dolphins up close and personal.
• Rainbow Springs Kiwi Wildlife Park: This wildlife park is a great place to spot eccentric species of animals and it is spread in an area of over 22 acres. You can visit here any time of the day and look at the rare bird species, one of them is the kiwi that attracts a lot of tourists here.
• Zealandia: The Karie Sanctuary Experience: This is an eco-sanctuary for the native wildlife that resides in New Zealand and a good option to go on New Zealand wildlife tours. There are a variety of rare species of animals that reside here. You can sport the forest parrots, Tuatara (which is a reptilian living fossil), Saddleback, falcon and much more.

Ideal Time to Visit New Zealand for a Wildlife Tour

Summer season that is between December to May is overall great weather for New Zealand wildlife tours.

Ways to Reach New Zealand

There are direct flights to Auckland available from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and other major cities.