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The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Watch wild royal albatross soar at Taiaroa Head, then descend into a purpose-built underground hide at dusk to watch the world's smallest penguins waddle ashore. This is New Zealand wildlife at its most intimate and utterly irreplaceable.
Board a restored heritage train from Dunedin Railway Station and ride through one of the most dramatic gorges in the Southern Hemisphere — sheer schist cliffs, Victorian viaducts, and wild tussock high country. A bucket-list rail journey by any measure.
Explore New Zealand's only castle — a Victorian Gothic masterpiece crowning the Otago Peninsula — with access to the private family rooms, the battlement turret, and the award-winning 35-acre garden. Romance, history, and staggering harbour panoramas combine in one estate.
Stand at the windswept tip of Taiaroa Head and watch royal albatross — the world's largest seabirds — launch and land just metres away at the only mainland breeding colony on earth. A wildlife encounter that exists nowhere else on the planet.
Join a maximum of 8 guests for a curated full-day journey through Dunedin's Victorian architecture, Baldwin Street, the Botanic Garden, and the Otago Peninsula's wild southern coast — guided by a passionate local expert who reveals the city's hidden character.
Step inside the 1876 Speight's stone brewery — a Dunedin institution and a masterpiece of Victorian industrial heritage — for a guided tour of the working brew-house followed by a tutored tasting of the full range, including limited-release and seasonal ales.
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