Full Day in Middle Earth - Lord of the Rings Tour

This full day tour combines two half day Middle Earth adventures, with a one hour lunch break in Queenstown and a bus change before the afternoon departure. The order of the morning and afternoon tours can change depending on availability or weather conditions.

You’ll visit Skippers Canyon Lookout, weather permitting, then continue to Arrowtown, Gibbston Valley, Glenorchy and Paradise. At Skippers Canyon Lookout, you’ll look out over New Zealand’s "Most Dangerous Road", with a Lord of the Rings filming location further inside the canyon. Nearby, the Coronet Viewpoint opens up views across the Wakatipu Basin.

In Arrowtown, the tour explores the village’s gold rush history and includes two Lord of the Rings filming locations a short walk from town, followed by morning or afternoon tea. In Gibbston Valley, Central Otago’s premier wine region, you’ll visit another filming location and see the Historic Kawarau Bridge, where bungee jumpers leap from the world’s first commercial bungee site.

The Glenorchy and Paradise section follows the Glenorchy Road, with a stop at Bennetts Bluff Lookout, then continues to Glenorchy at the head of Lake Wakatipu. In Paradise Valley, you’ll visit two Lord of the Rings locations and one from The Hobbit, with access to a high country sheep station and ancient Southern Beech Forest.