“Engage in the adventurous surfing experience”
4 Day Wilderness Adventure and Multiactivity Watersports in Fiordland, South Island
Awarua River, Southland, South Island, New Zealand
SUP, Freediving, Surf Guiding in New Zealand
Advanced difficulty
Instruction in English
Maximum 6 participants
All meals included
Airport transfer included
Join this trip with Awarua Guides, specializing in remote wilderness adventures to Northern Fiordland and Southwest New Zealand. They access the region by an amazing scenic aircraft flight and look forward to showing you all the best this seldom visited region has to offer. This surf trip is for anyone seeking a unique wilderness experience in a special and remote part of Southern New Zealand!
Highlights
- Multiactivity watersports for advanced levels only
- Use of adventure, snorkeling, SUPs, and surfing equipment as needed
- Scenic flights into the West Coast wilderness and return
- Breakfasts, lunches, dinners, light snacks, and tasty beverages in the evening
- Organization and facilitation of trip and guiding
- 3 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Advanced
Styles
3 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Japanese
Group size: Maximum of 6 participants
Airport transfer included:
Queenstown Airport
Accommodation
Accommodation is provided in conjunction with the authentic wilderness home and a safari tent camp. This includes access to a hot shower, solar and generator power, satellite internet for weather and communication, refrigeration, sea kayaks, a rowboat, surfboards, stand-up paddle boards, and power access for recharging camera equipment. Awarua Guides can also provide a variety of accommodation options in the surrounding wilderness areas if you are looking to explore more during your adventure.
Program
On a wilderness adventure with Awarua Guides, the team will collect you from your Queenstown hotel or airport for an amazing scenic helicopter flight through the Southern Alps. You will fly past mountains, glaciers, lakes, and forests, to the incredible wilderness coastline and touch down in front of the Awarua base in amazing coastal Northern Fiordland.
During your stay, Awarua Guides will introduce you to some of New Zealand's most stunning coastal wilderness and all the activities that abound within this area.
You have a variety of hiking, kayaking, surfing, wild food gathering, freediving, and snorkeling, plus wildlife spotting; native bird life, wild red deer, and marine mammals.
Awarua Guides provides sea kayaks, surfing, and snorkeling equipment (as needed) plus stand-up paddle boards to help you enjoy your experience.
They won't join you on every outing, but they will give you guidance and direction to enjoy and experience the area in the best and safest possible manner.
You cook and dine together on the freshest and finest wild New Zealand cuisine. Accommodations and comfortable beds are provided in canvas safari tents in conjunction with Awarua Guides' unique wilderness cabin for an unforgettable, authentic wilderness experience in coastal Northern Fiordland.
At the completion of your visit, you have the helicopter return to whisk you back to Queenstown on another amazing alpine flight, with a smile and a great story to tell. Many people leave this Awarua Guides saying their experience was life-changing.
Awarua Guides look forward to hosting and showing you all the best remote Nothern Fiordland coastal wilderness.
Included excursions
During this holiday, you will also enjoy an exceptional scenic aircraft flying through the Southern Alps and along remote coastlines, past stunning mountain landscapes, glaciers, lakes and forested wilderness.
Location
Awarua Guides will introduce you to a combination of the hidden and colorful locations and people along the remote Fiordland and Southwest Coast. They access the region by an amazing scenic aircraft flight between locations to show you the best history, scenery, and culture that this spectacular coastline area has to offer.
This special and unique area is one that Awarua Guides has many years of experience guiding and hosting in. They will introduce you to some of New Zealand’s most stunning wilderness and coastline and give you an insight into the region and the opportunity to experience these remote landscapes in the best possible way.
Food
Awarua Guides' wild foods have recently been featured in the pages of USA’s Bon Appetite Magazine and Men’s Journal. Awarua Guides' activities offer you the experience and enjoyment of catching and hand harvesting precious wild foods in these remote locations and the process of preparing them for a quality dining experience. This may include seafood, crayfish, green lip mussels, fresh fish, paua, and wild Fiordland venison.
You will dine on the freshest of wild cuisine plus a variety of other fine New Zealand foods. Awarua Guides strives to use additional organic and free-range produce where possible. Special diets can be catered for, however, please remember these are very remote locations and food items are hard to source, so please be flexible and open with menu preferences and give Awarua Guides plenty of notice of allergies or dietary needs.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Organic
- Seafood
- Other dietary requirements on request
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- Scenic flights into the West Coast wilderness and return
- Organization and facilitation of trip and guiding
- Satellite internet and communications for safety, aircraft communication, and weather forecasting
- All meals, light snacks, and a tasty beverage or two in the evening
- 3 nights accommodation in canvas safari wildlife tents
- A contribution to Awarua environmental efforts
- Department of Conservation fees
- Use of adventure, snorkeling, SUP, and surfing equipment as needed
- GST
What's not included
- Airfare
- Extra days
How to get there
Recommended Airports
ZQN
Queenstown Airport
93 km
Transfer included
Airport: Queenstown Airport
Airport transfer included: Queenstown Airport
No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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