Two Days in Taupo

Day 1 

0900 - 1100

Join Taupo Quads for an awesome one, two or three hour ride on 4 wheel bikes over scenic bush trails. Taupo quads can be as challenging or as leisurely as you require, they guide to your level of ability and experience with trails to suit. More experienced riders out the front and slower at the rear with a guide to help if needed.

The Lake Taupo region has the best white water in New Zealand. Rapids jet, boats the biggest rapids for commercial jet boating in New Zealand, surf the waves of the awesome Fuljames Rapids Taupo and jet boat through narrow canyons, braided shallows and sensational white water rapids. Jet boat in the foaming tail of the biggest rapids and fully buoyant jet boat as well as drivers of 17 years experience (owner operator). The Waikato River is a geothermal wonderland just 10 minutes from Taupo and 40 minutes from Rotorua.

Celebrate art and history. Situated in the heart of Taupo, only minutes from the lake and Taupo's superb shopping district, Lake Taupo Museum and Art Gallery offers visitors an opportunity to celebrate both art and history in one ideal location. Learn about Taupo's volcanic origins, experience the beauty of a Maori meeting house, browse through our displays of Taupo district's natural and human history and enjoy the latest art exhibition. A light, airy space, our art gallery features regular exhibitons of New Zealand artists' original work which is often for sale. Stroll through these inviting rooms and soak up the atmosphere.

Day 2

0900 - 1100

HAKA Trails, Maori Culture Making Memories provides tours and experiences in the Turangi, Taupo and Rotorua region's experiences with a Maori flavour. They draw upon the rich natural assets of their tribal homelands, the native forests, pristine lakes, sacred mountains, geothermal wonders and unique Maori heritage, to provide you with an experience worth writing home about! A locally owned and operated whanau (family) business, HAKA Trails provides its own exclusive tours and also works closely with other local Maori and whanau to give you a broad selection of Maori experiences to choose from. Their excursions will be of special interest to those who seek an opportunity to learn about and connect with Maori culture in a more natural, authentic and personable way. Highly educational, you will have the benefit of having staff close by to answer any questions you might have about our Maori heritage whilst engaging with this magnificent region and its people. This product offers full and half day excursions to well known attractions off the beaten track in locations such as Turangi, Lake Taupo and Rotorua, all with a distinctive 'Maori Flavour'.

Taupo Tandem Skydiving is the first tandem skydiving operation in New Zealand and is currently the largest in the world. Operating daily, year round (weather permitting) since 1992. Serving over 12,000 tandem students last year, Taupo Tandem skydiving has the capacity to skydive up to 180 tandem students a day. Exiting the plane between 6000 to 15000 feet (15000 is oxygen assisted), customers have the opportunity to experience the incomparable exhilaration of free-falling. A spectacular parachute ride over the stunning background of the Lake Taupo region and the snow capped volcanoes ends the adventure.

Enjoy an afternoon of trout fishing in the almighty Lake taupo. Join Gus aboard 'Te Arani II' and share the local knowledge and years of fishing Lake Taupo. 'Te Arnai II' can take 6 passengers and is full enclosed. All fishing gear and licence supplied.