Step ashore and meet your tour guide for a trip perfectly catered to your strict cruise schedule. Explore the countryside of Banks Peninsula where you see breathtaking panoramas, and then visit some of the top highlights of Christchurch including the Botanical Gardens and Willowbank Wildlife Reserve.

Leave Akaroa Harbour behind after a convenient pickup from the cruise ship port. The scenery as you ride down the Akaroa Highway is simply stunning, lined with the Little River and lakes Forsyth and Ellesmere, as well as views of the imposing Southern Alps contrasted against the flatness of the Canterbury Plains.

Once you arrive in Christchurch, you briefly visit the elaborately designed Botanical Gardens with lush greenery and flowers of every color. Next, you will enjoy a Sightseeing tour through Central Christchurch that includes a stop to see the devastating damage that an earthquake caused to the town.

The tour then moves onto Willowbank Wildlife Reserve where you can get a glimpse at all the native animals that call New Zealand home. See species that are endangered, such as the kiwi, and learn what steps are being made to preserve these animals' lives. Hop back in the vehicle for the return trip to your cruise ship.