Four Day - Active "Journeys At the Edge"

• Three stunning National Parks – Richmond Forest Park, Abel Tasman National Park, Kahurangi National Park

• Five superb soft adventure activities – helibiking, sailing, sea kayaking, helihiking, and helirafting

• Four scenic helicopter flights – Mt Richmond Forest park, Abel Tasman & Kahurangi National parks

One the best multiactivity trips in the world, this unique and memorable, continuous 4 day adventure Journey, is ideal as a “once in a lifetime” holiday vacation and shared experience for active families, small groups of friends, or small corporate groups.
The Journey travels across the wonderful and varied landscapes of Richmond Forest Park, Abel Tasman National Park and Kahurangi National Park, in the northwestern corner of the South Island of New Zealand, through a stunning landscape of sweeping golden beaches, turquoise seas, superb native bush, imposing mountain ranges, wilderness rivers and the remote and spectacular coastline of the Heaphy track .Two to Three nights in lodges and one aboard our 50 ft yacht “Simply Wild”.

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After collecting you from your accommodation in Nelson, we’ll head into the wilderness behind Nelson City to meet the helicopter which will fly us to 1000 metres in Mt Richmond Forest Park behind Nelson City. After enjoying the stunning views of the top of the South Island we’ll walk for half an hour to collect our mountain bikes for the exhilarating 15 kilometre downhill through native bush on the Dun mountain trail, a classic ride which follows the route of New Zealand’s first railway. Descending through firstly open alpine country, then beautiful native forest, you will ride back to Nelson City itself, and the marina to meet “Simply Wild”, our 50ft, 4 cabin Beneteau cruising yacht and lunch.
You can relax or get involved in sailing the yacht for the 4 hour sail across Tasman Bay to Anchorage in Abel Tasman National Park, where we spend the night.

Day Two
Today we spend the day in sea kayaks exploring of the famous Abel Tasman coastline, one of the best sea kayak destinations in the world.
We’ll take time to enjoy paddling along the rocky coastline, golden beaches, tranquil inlets and native bush, before making our way to Awaroa Lodge at Awaroa in the National Park where we spend the night.

Day Three
After breakfast you board our luxury Eurocopter helicopter for a scenic trip through the heart of the million acre Kahurangi National Park. Flying alongside jagged peaks, you’ll land on a broad ridge high in the park, then beautiful glacial Boulder Lake at 3000ft, before descending to the Heaphy River near the Tasman sea, where you’ll walk the last day of the famous Heaphy track, one of New Zealand’s great walks. It’s a 5 – 6 hour walk along the stunning, rugged and remote western coastline to the end of the track at Kohaihai and the small isolated village of Karamea, where we’ll spend the night.

Day Four
We start the day with a short helicopter trip into the Karamea River. Known as one of the world’s great wilderness multi-day rafting trips, we raft the last section through the Karamea Gorge. Rafting grade 4-5, this is what we call cerebral rafting. Long boulder gardens and powerful water require great teamwork from guides and paddlers. Because of it‘s remote location, the Karamea is seldom rafted, and we are unlikely to see anybody else on the river. At the end of the day you have the option of flying by fixed wing aeroplane back to Nelson, staying an extra night in Karamea or we can arrange for a rental car so you that can begin the superb drive down the South Islands West Coast to the glaciers and Queenstown.

Pricing :

From NZ$7,487.00 per person ( based on a 4 person trip)

Variations on this trip available up to 7 days. An ideal corporate adventure trip. Please contact us for quotes for larger groups.

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Luxury yacht “Yonder Star” in Abel Tasman National Park

Four Day - Active "Journeys At the Edge"

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