North Island Adrenaline Activities

Waitomo: Black water rafting

Sound like white water rafting’s lesser-known evil twin sibling? Not at all....

Northland: Scuba diving & snorkelling

Thu 16 Apr 2015

Chanel your inner Jacques Cousteau and ease into New Zealand’s adrenaline with something adrenaline-light. Kilometres of rugged coastline and sheltered subtropical waters mean Northland proffers an aquatic paradise with hundreds of world-class diving sights for old pros and novice scuba-discoverers....

Auckland: SkyJump & SkyWalk

It’s a bird…it’s a plane! No, it’s you and you’re about to base jump by wire off New Zealand’s tallest building....

Rotorua: White water rafting

Rotorua is a hub of all things geothermal. It’s also a home New Zealand’s most popular white water rafting run: the Kaituna River....

Ohakune & National Park: Ski/board an active volcano

Carving up the freshies down the side of a volcanic cone is an exercise in unadulterated adrenaline. Welcome to Mt Ruapehu, host to not one, but three ski fields!...

Hamilton: Hot air ballooning

Head up and away at the crack of dawn in a hot air balloon over the Waikato region’s lush lowlands, farmlands, bush-clad extinct volcanoes and New Zealand’s longest river, the Waikato River. On clear days spy two of the North Island’s mighty mountains: Mt Ruapehu (2,797m) and Mt Taranaki (2,518m)....

Ahipara: Sand boarding

Boogie boards aren’t just for water. Grab yours and get ready for sun, heat, loose sand, a steep 20 minute climb before nothing but you and your board hurtle down dunes, some as high as 2000m, at adrenaline speeds....