New Zealand

Explore Aotearoa New Zealand through Māori culture, natural landscapes, conservation, social change and environmental learning. Students connect with place, identity and leadership close to home.

Explore New Zealand Through Culture, Nature and Leadership

New Zealand, or Aotearoa by its Māori name, offers students a rich setting for educational travel. Shaped by dramatic landscapes, strong biodiversity and a living Indigenous culture, it gives students the chance to learn through place, history and people.

An Edventure Travel program in New Zealand can explore themes such as Māori culture, colonisation, conservation, natural hazards, renewable energy, climate change, film production, politics and the country’s role in the Asia-Pacific. Each experience helps students connect classroom ideas with real-world examples.

Shape the Learning Experience

Curiosity sets the direction. Whether your focus is history, culture, development, environment or contemporary issues, Edventure Travel can help build a New Zealand program that connects learning with real-world experience.

Programs can be shaped around themes such as Māori culture, Indigenous affairs, British colonisation, conservation, biodiversity, natural hazards, renewable energy, climate change, women’s rights, political leadership, maritime history, film production and New Zealand’s role in the Asia-Pacific.

Customised New Zealand Tours for Your Group

Every group brings different interests, learning goals and travel priorities. That’s why each New Zealand tour can be shaped around your students, curriculum and preferred style of travel.

Student trips can support curriculum outcomes, student wellbeing and your school’s budget, while offering meaningful learning beyond the classroom.

Private tours can also be tailored to your group’s interests, pace, accommodation preferences and overall budget.

History and Politics

  • Learn about the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi and the important distinction between governorship and sovereignty at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
  • Be guided though one of the world’s best aviation museums, Omaka Aviation Heritage Museum
  • Explore the vital role of women in New Zealand governments past and present, with a visit to Parliament (‘The Beehive’)
  • Discover New Zealand’s rich maritime history, from Polynesian immigration to the French attack on Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior activist ship
  • Visit the world’s only surviving ship, which transported convicts from the United Kingdom to Australia in 1858, berthed in Picton

Māori Culture and Indigenous Affairs

  • Visit ancient Māori Wars battle sites and pa (old villages) complete with ramparts, cooking pits and marae (meeting houses)
  • Come to know how Māori tribes deal with land rights issues, the English style of government, explained by Māori elders and specialised guides
  • Understand what’s driving the revival of Māori culture and identity in contemporary society

Geography and Renewable Energy

  • Encounter volcanoes, fault lines, glaciers, fiords and sounds, as well as earthquake-damaged areas of Christchurch and Kaikoura
  • Understand the Department of Conservation’s role in protecting biodiversity and heritage
  • See the success of green energy sources like hydro and thermal power

  • Wander through the Te Wairoa Buried Village to study New Zealand’s famous Pink and White terraces, both destroyed during an earthquake in 1886

Add Adventure to Your New Zealand Program

If you like an action-packed itinerary, expand your agenda with these exciting local activities:

  • Raft beneath the caves of Charleston
  • Skydive over Wanaka
  • Ride the Shotover Jet in Queenstown
  • Bungy jump or swing from breathtaking heights
  • Explore geothermal sites and volcanic landscapes
  • Mountain bike on cycling tracks and around hills
  • Visit Hobbiton, the movie set for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
  • Take a gondola ride for wide views across the landscape

Add Adventure to Your New Zealand Program

If you like an action-packed itinerary, expand your agenda with these exciting local activities
Zip-line through ancient rainforests  
Take a scenic cable car ride and enjoy spectacular views
Cruise, kayak or jetboat down mighty rivers, fiords and sounds
Visit a local school to attend a Māori culture class and play sport
Explore rocky mountain terrain on a trek or mountain bike adventure
Relax in natural hot springs or dig your own bath at a warm water beach
Board a boat to encounter whales, seals and dolphins in pristine oceans
Ski, snowboard or toboggan the slopes in New Zealand’s Southern Alps
Try an extreme sport, like bungy jumping, white-water rafting or leisurely luge rides
Stop by film studios and sets to meet experts behind blockbusters
Mountain bike on cycling tracks and around hills
Visit Hobbiton, the movie set for ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’
Ride the Luge down twists and turns

Nine Destinations, Endless Learning

Explore educational school tours across Asia and New Zealand, with each destination offering distinct culture, community and real world learning.

Ready to Plan Your Next School Tour?

Tell us where you’d like to go, what your students need to learn and when you’re planning to travel. We’ll help shape an itinerary around your school.