Kayaking - Funyaks
from NZD$289.00
About
Description
The 'Funyak Safari' is a truly unique adventure that combines exhilarating wilderness jet boating with unique ‘Funyak’ inflatable canoes for a fun way to intimately explore magnificent World Heritage wilderness within Mt Aspiring National Park. Your professional guides will take you on an inspiring adventure through dramatic landscapes where you’ll discover the natural and cultural diversity of this amazing area that make it so rare and special.
Jet Boat Action
An exhilarating wilderness jet boat journey, complete with exciting jet spins, will take you up the ever changing channels of the glacier fed Dart River’s braided river system, with your expert jet boat driver stopping along the way to highlight and discuss points of significance within this spectacular environment.
Unique Funyak Adventure
The next part of your adventure then begins and you paddle / drift your own ‘Funyak’ on a fun downstream journey, with your specialist guide pointing out sights and sharing stories of this awe-inspiring area as you explore the shimmering channels of the Dart River as well as hidden side streams, rock pools and dramatic chasms.
Wilderness Buffet Lunch
You’ll stop along the way and enjoy a delicious wilderness buffet lunch amidst spectacular surrounds before continuing in your ‘Funyak’ downstream to ‘Paradise’, from where you’ll travel via back-country route through spectacular locations and scenery that has formed the epic backdrop for many international movies, including ‘The Lord of the Rings’.
Suitable for most ages and fitness levels, no experience is required.
Trip Includes
- Optional transfers from Queenstown
- Exhilarating wilderness jet boating along the Dart River
- Unique ‘Funyak’ adventure in inflatable ‘Funyak’ canoes
- Delicious wilderness buffet amidst spectacular scenery
- Journey through the back country roads of Paradise to Glenorchy
- Entertaining and informative commentary including Lord of the Rings trivia
Duration
- Allow 8-9 hours inlcuding transfers to Glenorchy from Queenstown (45mins each way)
Departures
- 8am
- Queenstown Hotel pick up or self drive to Glenorchy (45 mins from Queenstown)
Other Information
- Child price available for children aged 5 - 15 years
- Children under 5 years are not permitted
- Please take swimwear and a towel with you
- Dress warmly as the wind chill can often be quite cold
- We advise you to take the following: Sunscreen, water, hat, shades, insect repellent and of course your cameras
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