High Country Discovery Tour from Queenstown
Queenstown, New Zealand
Trip Type: Half-day Tours
Duration: 4 hours 30 minutes
This tour offers you an exciting 4.15 hour long 4WD tour across private farmland in the heart of middle-earth. Enjoy a number of different experiences in a small group of 2-4 people. This tour can cater to your desires, whether you want to get lost in the Lord of the Rings or Hobbit movie locations, view farm animals, go for a walk in stunning scenery, or practice your photography skills – this tour can offer it all! Explore the Paradise Valley area in Glenorchy region on this half day personal tour.
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This tour offers you an exciting 4.15 hour long 4WD tour across private farmland in the heart of middle-earth. Enjoy a number of different experiences in a small group of 2-4 people. This tour can cater to your desires, whether you want to get lost in the Lord of the Rings or Hobbit movie locations, view farm animals, go for a walk in stunning scenery, or practice your photography skills – this tour can offer it all! Explore the Paradise Valley area in Glenorchy region on this half day personal tour.We have exclusive access to Mount Earnslaw Station, a 130-year-old working farm set in the spectacular alpine environment of the Paradise Valley at the head of Lake Wakatipu. We take you on a half–day adventure over Mount Earnslaw Station, right into the heart of New Zealand’s high country.
You will gain real insight into country life in this remote region, Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit movie locations can be viewed and there are plenty of walking options to secluded vantage points for the ultimate photograph.
No visit to the area is complete without a visit to Glenorchy village first surveyed in 1864, fluctuating in numbers over the years with activities including gold mining, sawmilling, scheelite mining, farming and more recently film making with what may be the smallest library in the world.
Throughout the tour you will receive commentary historical, cultural and geographic anecdotes.
This tour is flexible and able to cater to your desires. Activities you can choose to experience include vising an operational woolshed where in season 1500 sheep are shorn in a day, visiting Diamond Lake flanked by Mt Alfred and Mt Earnslaw, and 4WD across farmland to Lake Reid where Black Swans and Paradise ducks live all year round
You will gain real insight into country life in this remote region, Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit movie locations can be viewed and there are plenty of walking options to secluded vantage points for the ultimate photograph.
No visit to the area is complete without a visit to Glenorchy village first surveyed in 1864, fluctuating in numbers over the years with activities including gold mining, sawmilling, scheelite mining, farming and more recently film making with what may be the smallest library in the world.
Throughout the tour you will receive commentary historical, cultural and geographic anecdotes.
This tour is flexible and able to cater to your desires. Activities you can choose to experience include vising an operational woolshed where in season 1500 sheep are shorn in a day, visiting Diamond Lake flanked by Mt Alfred and Mt Earnslaw, and 4WD across farmland to Lake Reid where Black Swans and Paradise ducks live all year round
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