Lake Tekapo Farm Tours | 2 hours

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  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • All Fees and Taxes
  • Animal feed
  • Tips
  • Child seat (For infants)

Overview

The Lake Tekapo Farm Tour is unique for its stunning backdrop of the Southern Alps and Lake Tekapo, combined with a deep commitment to sustainability on a carbon-positive, family-owned farm. Visitors enjoy a hands-on experience with farm animals, learn about eco-friendly farming practices, and explore the adventurous high country landscape. This tour provides an authentic, educational, and visually spectacular adventure. The tour provides opportunities to see unique New Zealand wildlife and farm animals, including Merino sheep, which are famous for their high-quality wool. Visitors can learn about the farm’s carbon-positive operations, its efforts in preserving the environment, and how it balances productivity with conservation.

Meeting points

We are located in The Cairns Alpine Resort. Look for "Go Tekapo" signboard to get to our check-in office.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

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    Stop 1 - is Mt John Woolshed Our tours start and finish at here. You will be greeted by your guide at the Mt John Woolshed, before starting your epic off-road journey. Stop 2 - Irishman Creek Hut We stop off at the Irishman Creek Hut for a history lesson about the region. You'll hear interesting facts about our forestry development and the football-sized pine-cones grown here! Stop 3 - Swan Tarn We'll take you up to one of the best locations in the Mackenzie. Swan Tarn has 360º views and on clear days you'll be able to see Aoraki Mount Cook, Lake Pukaki and beyond. Stop 4 - Forks Stream - Have you ever experienced fresh spring water straight from the source? We're extremely lucky to live in an environment where we can! Fill your water bottle up with pure NZ water here. Stop 5 - Mt John Lookout This stop might be the best on the tour. We'll perch you on top of a hill with expansive views over Lake Tekapo for photos...complete with the opportunity to dress up like a farmer!

    1 hour 15 minutes

  • Lake Tekapo Petting Zoo

    Stop 6 - Back to feed the animals including sheep, alpaca, Kune Kune pig, lambs, chickens & ducks

    45 minutes

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Additional Info

  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Guests will need to bring their child seat for infants and it is by NZ law that infants are not allowed to sit on laps in the vehicle

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June 19100% refund
June 20No refund

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  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
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Informative, very enjoyable tour - especially meeting and feeding the animals

Published on Dec, 2023

The farm tour with Sam was very informative and great fun. We visited a variety of sites across the massive farm estate, including the horses, sheep (during lambing season!), cows and Irishman Creek in the 4x4 minibus (which was incredibly comfy). It was incredible to learn about the sheer scale of the farm, and Sam was incredibly friendly and knowledgeable about everything. Feeding the lambs and piglets was also a wonderful experience!

An interesting tour of a working High Country farm

Published on Feb, 2020

We really enjoyed our Lake Tekapo Farm Tour. Maddy was very friendly and explained how the farm worked, which was very interesting because we didn’t know much about merino sheep until then. We got the opportunity to get up close and personal to lots of farm animals, learn about the travel of the early settlers at Irishman Creek Roadman’s Hut, and sample lots of local honey. Plus, we got some spectacular views over the gloriously turquoise-blue Lake Tekapo. The trip was very worthwhile.

Excellent

Published on Oct, 2019

Thoroughly enjoyed this great farm tour. Spectacular views. Many thanks to Maddy for her excellent tour Would definitely recommend

Amazing tour of a beautiful ranch the size of Manhattan!

Published on Feb, 2019

Tour the family farm/ranch with Steve, one of the family owners, along with my wife and 8 month old. We had a great time learning about the sheep and how humanely they are treated, merino wool, the history of the land, and many other beautiful facets of this region. We drank fresh water straight from a stream and got to feed several of the animals including Whiskey the pig! Very personal and informative tour. Very glad we did this tour.

Awesome Farm Tour!

Published on Jan, 2019

I had made a last minute booking for the farm tour with my group of friends in Lake Tekapo and I glad I did it. Steve is the owner on this tour and he bought us to the farm tour and had the chance to experience the real farming in NZ, by watching and feeding the cows, horses, alpaca, Martha the sheep, and even had the chance to take pictures with Lupin flowers and destroy them :P Never the less, meet Whiskey my favourite pig boar. She is sooooo cute! And the whole experience thanks to Steve. He is incredible tour guide and funny guy who made my day. Thank you Steve, you made me fell in love with Lake Tekapo and will promise will come back soon for star glazing during winter! Definitely recommend on this.

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