South Island Highlights Photo Tour - 20 Days
Sir Henry Wigley Dr, Queenstown
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20-day New Zealand photography tour capturing some of the country’s best untouched wilderness and the Te Wahipounamu world heritage area. This tour will be lead with Richard Young along with three other top New Zealand landscape photographers throughout different parts; Rob Brown, Shaun Barnett and Ken Wright. You will have the opportunity to learn from 4 professional photographers and get to photograph a total of 6 of the country's finest national parks.
Starting in Queenstown the tour will first head to Mt Cook National Park to photograph some of the amazing alpine scenery around New Zealand’s highest peak. We will cross back through Central Otago to the South Island’s West Coast. With excellent opportunities to capture the wild beaches of the area, its forests and waterfalls, as well as views of the snow-covered Southern Alps.
The South Island’s West Coast boasts more forests, mountains and protected lands than any other region of New Zealand. Here, wild and remote coastlines are flanked by primeval rainforests, with the high peaks and glaciers of the Southern Alps rising beyond. Journeying on to the top of the South Island you will then spend 4 days capturing coastal landscape around Golden Bay and the top of the South Island, including a full day on a private charter boat in the world famous Abel Tasman National Park.
Highlights:
- Ski-plane over Mt Cook
- Te Wāhipounamu World Heritage
- Jetboat into the Waitangiroto Reserve
- Boat trip in Abel Tasman National Park
- Boat trip in the Marlborough Sounds
- Boat trip in Kaikoura
Locations:
- Aoraki/Mt Cook
- Lake Matheson
- Punakaiki Pancake Rocks
- Nelson Lakes National Park
- Westland National Park
- Paparoa National Park
- Abel Tasman National Park
- Archway Islands
- Marlborough Sounds
- Kaikoura
Price includes:
- 20 days Photography Tuition
- 19 nights hotel accommodation (twin-share, single upgrade available)
- 19 cooked breakfasts
- Ski-plane over Mt Cook
- Whataroa Jet boat
- Abel Tasman private chartered boat
- Boat trip in the Marlborough Sounds
- Boat trip and Albatross Encounter in Kaikoura
- Transport during the tour
- Queenstown pickup
- Christchurch drop off
- DOC concession fees
- Copy of our Pocket Guide to Landscape & Wildlife Photography
- Donation to our Conservation Fund
- Native tree planting to Carbon Offset your tour
For more information, see the official website.
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