Tour Highlights Of Australia And New Zealand (2024/2025, 22 Days)

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As of December 1st 2021, you must be fully vaccinated to travel with us. Your final vaccine dose must have been administered a minimum of 15 days prior to the start of the trip. This is your second dose of Pfizer, Moderna, or Astra Zeneca, or single dose of Johnson & Johnson.  You must be able to show documented proof of vaccination on trip. Your CDC card is sufficient (we recommend saving a picture on your smart phone as a backup option), but please be aware that certain destinations may require you to fill out additional forms online.

Meals

Tamaki Maori Village, Cultural Performance & Dinner Hobbiton tour and breakfast Postmasters Dinner in Queenstown

Others

Melbourne Laneways Walking Tour Great Barrier Reef Cruise Sydney Harbour Cruise Sydney Opera House Locally Guided Tour Rainbow Springs and Kiwi Hatchery Milford Sound Nature Cruise Dark Sky Project – Crater Experience Britten Stables (BMG) Local Specialists (Guides) Centrally located premium hotels

Transport

Travel in luxury coach Airport Transfers (see flight information below)

Accommodation

21 nights quality accommodation: Crowne Plaza Hotel Melbourne Mercure Alice Springs Resort Desert Gardens Hotel Shangri-La Hotel, The Marina Cairns Intercontinental Hotel Sydney Stamford Plaza Auckland Millennium Hotel Rotorua Millennium Hotel Queenstown Te Waonui Forest Retreat Distinction Christchurch Hotel

Guide

Specialist team of two highly experienced Travel Director and Driver Guide

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Others

Other activities and services are not included.

Flights

International flights are not included.

Insurance

Insurance is not included.

Optional

Blue Mountains & Australia Wildlife (J15) (Sydney) Adult Price: AUD 165 Child Price: AUD 82 Bridge Climb (Sydney) Adult Price: AUD 308.00 Child Price: AUD 208.00 Sydney Tower Restaurant Dinner (Sydney) Adult Price: AUD 75.00 Child Price: AUD 22.00 The Rocks Pub Walk (Sydney) Adult Price: From AUD 95.00 Ayers Rock Scenic Flights (Ayers Rock) Adult Price: From AUD 240.00 Child Price: From AUD 240.00 Ayers Rock Helicopter Flights (Ayers Rock) Adult Price: From AUD 160.00 Child Price: From AUD 160.00 Uluru Motorcycle Tours (Ayers Rock) Adult Price: From AUD 139.00 Child Price: From AUD 139.00 Uluru Barbecue Dinner (Ayers Rock) Adult Price: AUD 138.60 Child Price: AUD 69.30 Great Adventures Introductory Dive (Cairns) Adult Price: AUD 173.00 Kuranda, Skyrail and Tjapukai Day Tour (KQST) (Cairns) Adult Price: AUD 199.80 Child Price: AUD 107.10 Ochre Restaurant - 2 Course Dinner (Cairns) Adult Price: AUD 57.00 Child Price: AUD 57.00 Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park - By Day (Cairns ) Adult Price: AUD 93.00 Child Price: AUD 60.50 Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park - By Night (Cairns) Adult Price: AUD 154.00 Child Price: AUD 93.50 Great Ocean Road & Twelve Apostles (Melbourne) Adult Price: AUD 169.00 Child Price: AUD 85.00 Phillip Island - Penguins, Kangaroos & Koalas (Melbourne) Adult Price: AUD 172.00 Child Price: AUD 86.00 Down Under Tours Daintree Dreaming (Cairns) Adult Price: AUD $235.80 Child Price: AUD $217.80 Kuranda: Scenic Rail, Skyrail and Hartley’s Crocodile (Cairns) Adult Price: AUD $198.90 Child Price: AUD $104.40 Cape Tribulation Day Tour (Cairns) Adult Price: AUD $201.60 Child Price: AUD $135.00 Down Under Tours Kuranda Skyrail and Scenic Railway (Cairns) Adult Price: AUD $153.90 Child Price: AUD $81.00 Nautilus Aviation (Cairns) Adult Price: AUD $199

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Day 1 Day 1: Welcome To Melbourne
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Welcome To Melbourne

Melbourne is known for its amazing food, as you’ll discover while meeting your fellow travellers tonight.
Day 2 Day 2: Melbourne
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Melbourne

Get your Melbourne bearings on a city tour, but make sure you’re wearing comfy shoes for when you hit the streets to explore hidden alleys covered in eye-popping murals. Spot a jazz bar or restaurant you fancy? The afternoon is yours to indulge.
Day 3 Day 3: Melbourne Free Time
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Melbourne Free Time

There are endless reasons to linger in Melbourne. But if you feel like exploring further afield, talk to us about a road trip along the Great Ocean Road (it deserves its name) or to Phillip Island. The penguins waddling from the ocean up the sand to their burrows is the cutest thing you’ll ever see.
Day 4 Day 4: Melbourne – Uluru
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Melbourne – Uluru

The rusty red landscapes of Uluru beckon as you leave Melbourne for Ayers Rock Resort, your backdrop this afternoon is the world’s largest rock monolith. Follow your guide to the perfect perch to capture Uluru as the last of the day disappears, glass of bubbles in hand (of course).
Day 5 Day 5: Uluru And Kata Tjuta
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Uluru And Kata Tjuta

The only reason to get out of bed before dawn? For a magical Uluru sunrise. It’s a spiritual place, with stories of the Anangu, caretakers of this remote arid landscape revealed while you tour the base. The red desert follows you to Kata Tjuta, where nature humbles as you walk through the towering domes of this ancient rock formation. Cheers to the end of another amazing day.
Day 6 Day 6: Uluru – Cairns
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Uluru – Cairns

So the other reason to rise in the dark is to witness Bruce Munro’s Field of Light, an installation of 50,000 orbs blanketing the outback. This is the countryside that First Nations artists immortalise in their paintings – try your hand at creating one during an intro to Western Desert art. Head to your next stop in sunny Cairns.
Day 7 Day 7: Cairns Free Time
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Cairns Free Time

Cruising with crocs, a scenic railway ride into World Heritage listed rainforest, a wander along the Cairns Esplanade? Today the choice is yours.
Day 8 Day 8: Great Barrier Reef
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Great Barrier Reef

The world’s largest living organism, the Great Barrier Reef, never fails to dazzle. Set out on a catamaran to explore a kaleidoscope of colour: over 1,500 species of fish, 215 different birds, 3,000 molluscs, six of the world’s seven marine turtle species, and 30 species of dolphins and whales are residents. Strap on a snorkel or visit an underwater observatory and semi-submersible craft to take in the menagerie without getting your hair wet. Tonight, celebrate the end of an incredible day at dinner on Cairns’ waterfront at Salt House for regional seafood plucked straight from the ocean, highlighting fresh, local ingredients, and prepared on their custom-built Argentinian wood fired grill.
Day 9 Day 9: Cairns – Sydney
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 9: Cairns – Sydney

We hope you have a window seat, because the view of Sydney Harbour as you come in to land is one that postcards were made for. Join your Travel Director for a Highlight Dinner cruise around Sydney Harbour against the backdrop of the Harbour Bridge and Opera House.
Day 10 Day 10: Sydney
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 10: Sydney

Bring your stamina: today is one of innumerable highlights. Go behind the scenes at the Sydney Opera House, discovering its architectural and performance secrets. If these sails could talk. One icon to another: The world’s most famous beach beckons this morning, with your chance to pad along the sand at Bondi with Sydney’s beautiful people. From Worked up an appetite? A local Surf Life Saver will take you into the members-only Bondi Surf Bathers’ Life Saving Club. Learn about this historic club and gain an understanding of the important work that is done here saving lives on this famous beach. Next, a Be My Guest lunch with views overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Day 11 Day 11: Sydney Free Time
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 11: Sydney Free Time

The hardest decision you have to make today: explore more of Sydney, or head to the Blue Mountains, 11,400 square kilometres of World Heritage listed wilderness, a place where sandstone escarpments appear to cleave off the edge of the Earth and waterfall-cooled valleys of rainforest slip dreamily from the pages of a fairytale? The choice is yours.
Day 12 Day 12: Sydney Free Time
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 12: Sydney Free Time

Now you’ve found your bearings in Sydney, why not linger around the harbour – perhaps it’s time to glimpse it from above on a Sydney BridgeClimb? This bird’s-eye view certainly puts things in perspective. Back at ground level, you’re in the heart of the Rocks, the city’s original colonial settlement and a place of cobbled alleys and private galleries. Finally, a Highlight dinner back in the shadow of the Opera House at Portside Restaurant. Because you’ll never tire of glimpsing this beauty.
Day 13 Day 13: Sydney – Auckland
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 13: Sydney – Auckland

All you have to do today is sit back and enjoy the view as you cross the Tasman to embark on your next adventure.
Day 14 Day 14: Auckland
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 14: Auckland

We’ll take you out to Mission Bay and Bastion Point – have your camera poised – and then leave you to your own devices in the afternoon. Need suggestions? How about a cruise to Waiheke Island for a wine tour?
Day 15 Day 15: Auckland – Rotorua
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 15: Auckland – Rotorua

Cute and cuddly, NZ’s national bird, the kiwi, is also endangered. Go behind the scenes on a working kiwi nursery and hatchery to learn how breeding programs are helping the population thrive .This evening your highlight dinner is a cultural experience of Haka Pōwhiri, haka, song, connection, stories and a delicious seasonal three-course dinner along with Forest kai horotai (summer season canapes) and chef choice aperitif.
Day 16 Day 16: Rotorua – Queenstown
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 16: Rotorua – Queenstown

Ever wondered what it’s like to be a film star? Today you’ll get a taste of celebrity lifestyle when you sit down to breakfast in the village of Hobbiton, the movie set of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Trilogies. Take a guided tour past Hobbit Holes and the Mill, and wave to your fans.
Day 17 Day 17: Milford Sound Cruise
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 17: Milford Sound Cruise

Sheer cliffs, thundering waterfalls, glaciers and rainforest – if there’s a destination more inspiring than Milford Sound in Fiordland National Park, we’re yet to find it. After a cruise here (look out for dolphins and sea lions), we’re sure you’ll agree.
Day 18 Day 18: Queenstown Free Time
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 18: Queenstown Free Time

Today is all yours. Love adventure? Ride the Shotover Jet. Oenophile? Arrange a tour to Otago wineries. Regroup for a Highlight Dinner at the historic Postmasters Cottage.
Day 19 Day 19: Queenstown – Lake Tekapo
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 19: Queenstown – Lake Tekapo

Arrowtown and Cromwell are known for their natural drama; just as enticing is the tasty stone fruit. Take a bite. Arriving at Lake Tekapo, you’re far from anywhere. Which practically guarantees dazzling stargazing in the UNESCO Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve.
Day 20 Day 20: Lake Tekapo – Christchurch
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 20: Lake Tekapo – Christchurch

Arrive into the beautiful English city of Christchurch for a guided visit. The city is not only rebuilding itself after the devastating 2010/11 earthquakes, but is changing the way architects think about design. Case in point the mind-bending Transitional Cathedral, made largely of cardboard, and Turanga, the gold-clad central library.
Day 21 Day 21: Christchurch
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 21: Christchurch

Travel north through rolling countryside to Hurunui Hills, for a Be My Guest experience with the Bamford Family. Enjoy warm kiwi hospitality from Scotty and the team, who have been farming at Hurunui since 1884 with six generations focused on producing premium Merino sheep, wool and Angus Cattle. You will hear from Maria in the woolshed and enjoy a sheep dog demonstration before morning tea in the garden. Continue to local vinyard Waipara Springs Winery where you will enjoy a platter style lunch among the vines.
Day 22 Day 22: Farewell From Christchurch
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 22: Farewell From Christchurch

How did three weeks disappear like that? Re-live all the memorable moments on your way home.

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22 days tour

Highlights Of Australia And New Zealand (2024/2025, 22 Days)

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Itinerary of your trip Highlights Of Australia And New Zealand (2024/2025, 22 Days)

Day 1: Welcome To Melbourne

Day 2: Melbourne

Day 3: Melbourne Free Time

Day 4: Melbourne – Uluru

Day 5: Uluru And Kata Tjuta

Day 6: Uluru – Cairns

Day 7: Cairns Free Time

Day 8: Great Barrier Reef

Day 9: Cairns – Sydney

Day 10: Sydney

Day 11: Sydney Free Time

Day 12: Sydney Free Time

Day 13: Sydney – Auckland

Day 14: Auckland

Day 15: Auckland – Rotorua

Day 16: Rotorua – Queenstown

Day 17: Milford Sound Cruise

Day 18: Queenstown Free Time

Day 19: Queenstown – Lake Tekapo

Day 20: Lake Tekapo – Christchurch

Day 21: Christchurch

Day 22: Farewell From Christchurch

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