The most amount of Adrenaline

If you can pick one destination in the world, to give you the most thrills per square mile, then take a New Zealand gap year. If you are really rushing it, pick the South Island. This adrenaline pumping tour get you under the skin of the South Island, and explode your senses with insane extreme sports gap year activities.

Never a boring moment

Journey times can vary between an hour to maybe occasionally 4 or 5 on the road (depending on which tour you have booked on!). However, don’t sweat because your tour guide will break up every journey with heaps of unique stops to keep you entertained and show you as much of our beautiful country as possible. Besides, the scenery is so stunning you can never get bored!

On “free days” when we don’t travel between locations we still have plenty planned to show and do with you! Your guide will give you a fully guided tour of the area, and is always open to what tour members wish to focus their day towards. You are of course still free to do whatever you want to should you not want to stay with the group - your guide will be full of suggestions and certainly won't force you into doing anything you don't want to do.

Extra Adrenaline

Extreme Activity Pack - South Island ADRENALIN JUNKIE, NZ$1,099.00

Extreme Activity Pack - South Island ADRENALIN JUNKIE
$1,099.00
The options available to you when touring New Zealand can only be described as mind-blowing. Our tour specific extreme activity packs combine our personal favourite adventure activities.

The “Grand Traverse” is a flight of a lifetime over two World Heritage National Parks and 200km of New Zealand’s most memorable and spectacular scenery.

The 50 minute flight passes over Mt Cook (Aoraki) and Westland National Parks, 12 major glaciers, the highest peaks in Oceania and the sub tropical rain forests of the South Island's West Coast.  

Canyon Swing - Queenstown     


    
You are secured in a full body harness enabling you to depart from the 109 metre high platform in any position imaginable!

Upon leaving the platform, you will have a pure free fall for 60 metres before the lines take up tension and swing you into a smooth 200 metre arc at 150 kph!!

There are over 10 different jumpstyles to choose from on the day, some more scary than others!
Skydiving - Queenstown (12,000ft)     


    
It is said Queenstown is where beauty and extreme sports go hand in hand, and there is no better illustration than sky diving over the world's adventure capital. On the ride to altitude, take in the magnificent scenery of this world heritage area with snow capped mountains all year round surrounded by beech forests, sheer rock faces and winding rivers which promise an amazing flight and an exhilarating and breathtaking descent over Lake Wakatipu.

Half Day Glacier Trek - Franz Josef     


    
After being fitted Ice Talonz boots, a 10 minute bus ride takes you to within 3 km of the glacier.

After a short walk through the rainforest, the trip continues along the glacier valley, with your guide calling stops to explain about the unique features of the Franz Josef Glacier and the surrounding environment.

We then make our way up the terminal face of the glacier, where pre-formed access ways make exploring the lower reaches of the glacier achievable for most agile people.

The terrain can look daunting, but the huge effort our guides put in to creating extensive trails, together with the Ice Talonz on your feet, allow you to go further and see more, whilst travelling in comfort and at ease.
Across Country Quad Biking - Franz Josef     


    
Embark on an 4wd adventure and head across stony braided riverbeds, see glacial fed rivers and listen to your guide tell you about local history. Drive though dense rain forest and soak up the atmosphere as you pass by ferns, mosses and mature podocarp trees in this lush watery world.

Ride out to 10,000 year old moraine left by ancient glacial pathways and enjoy enough space to roam. View snow capped peaks and "Ka Roimata o Hinehukatere" otherwise known as the Franz Josef glacier as it plunges from around 2500 metres into the green canopy of the forest a mere 230 metres above sea level.

Enjoy a cup of coffee, tea or chocolate at the shelter and hear the old Maori legend of the glacier, its geology and tales of pioneers and adventures from times past. Take on the mud if you dare!

The vehicles are incredibly easy to ride. Drive if you can or sit back and enjoy the ride!
Underground Rafting - Punakaiki     


    
Visitors are fitted out with designer wet suits, wet suit socks boots gloves and helmet at the NWA Ltd Charleston Base. A courtesy coach takes you to The Nile River Rainforest Train for transport through the primeval rain forest and towering limestone cliffs of the Nile River Canyon.

Once changed, a short climb is required to enter the enormous Nile River Cave System where you meander through a calcitic paradise of stalactites and stalagmites in the upper dry levels of the cave.

Down in the lower active levels of the Cave, you meet up with a slow moving underground river on which you float in your tube using only the natural light of a simply awe inspiring display of glow worms for navigation.

You emerge from the cave into a remote and untouched world before leaving its tranquillity for the rushing bubbling waters of the low grade Nile River Rapids...


 

Plan your own evening

In the evening there is always an opportunity to socialise but again it is completely optional! Some tour members will like to grab a beer or two (or ten!) whilst others will rather chill out in the hostel and have an early night. If you do ever fancy a night on the town, adrenalin and extreme activities are always the best hangover cure!