A private West Coast tour with a real Māori haka performance, vineyard tasting, and dinner at a historic 100-year-old venue.
A private tour for your group only, with a genuine Māori haka performance, vineyard tasting, and Muriwai Beach, ending with dinner at The Riverhead.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real content includes a Māori haka performance, vineyard tasting, Muriwai Beach, and dinner at the genuine, historic Riverhead, under 100-year-old oak trees.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in central Auckland.
Genuine Māori cultural content.
The Riverhead's genuine historic setting.
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, with a genuine Māori haka performance, vineyard tasting, and Muriwai Beach, ending with dinner at The Riverhead. This is a private tour for your group only. Real content includes a Māori haka performance, vineyard tasting, Muriwai Beach, and dinner at the genuine, historic Riverhead, under 100-year-old oak trees.
A haka is not simply a "war dance," even though that's the form most visitors know from All Blacks matches. Māori tradition recognises several distinct forms: haka taparahi, performed without weapons for ceremonial occasions; peruperu and tūtūngārahu, war dances performed with weapons such as the taiaha and patu; ngeri, performed without weapons to celebrate, rally support, or mark a shared goal; and puha, historically used as an alert when a village faced a threat. A haka can genuinely be a welcome, a celebration, an act of mourning, or a protest, as much as it can be a challenge — it's a living tradition with real range, not a single fixed performance.
Muriwai Beach's gannet colony, further along the route, is a genuinely rare thing to see from the mainland. The colony at Otakamiro Point hosts around 1,200 breeding pairs of Australasian gannets each year from August through March, making it one of only a small handful of mainland gannet colonies anywhere — most colonies of this bird nest on offshore islands instead. Two purpose-built viewing platforms let visitors get within metres of the nesting birds without disturbing them.
The Riverhead, where the day ends with dinner, has its own real depth of history well beyond its oak trees. It was established in 1857 by Thomas William Deacon, a former Royal Navy man, and today holds the second-oldest liquor licence in New Zealand. Long before it was a dinner destination, it served as a genuine gateway for early settlers — travellers heading north from Auckland used its wharf and hotel as a stopping point before roads and rail existed, and gum diggers and traders used it as a meeting place in the decades that followed.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.