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A private tour to Tiritiri Matangi, a real predator-free wildlife sanctuary island.
A private tour for your group only, to the genuine predator-free Tiritiri Matangi sanctuary — real tūī, tīeke, kākāriki, and takahē.
This is a private tour for your group only, including a real private sea shuttle to Tiritiri Matangi — a genuine predator-free sanctuary with real native tūī, tīeke, kākāriki, and takahē, plus a historic lighthouse.
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 native New Zealand bird conservation.
Tūī, tīeke, kākāriki, and takahē.
Genuine island heritage.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, to the genuine predator-free Tiritiri Matangi sanctuary — real tūī, tīeke, kākāriki, and takahē. This is a private tour for your group only, including a real private sea shuttle to Tiritiri Matangi — a genuine predator-free sanctuary with real native tūī, tīeke, kākāriki, and takahē, plus a historic lighthouse.
Tiritiri Matangi's open, grassy slopes and tall native forest look centuries old, but most of it is the product of a deliberate, community-led restoration. The project began in 1982, when volunteers realised bracken and matting grass were overtaking farmland that had been left to regenerate on its own; from 1984, volunteers began collecting native seed, raising seedlings in an island nursery, and planting them by hand — starting with the hardy pōhutukawa. By 1994 they had put more than 280,000 trees and shrubs in the ground, and by 1995 roughly 60 percent of the 220-hectare island was regenerating forest, healthy enough to support large colonies of birds found almost nowhere else.
The Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi, formed by Jim and Barbara Battersby in 1988, still coordinate the island's roughly 200 volunteer guides today. Once the forest matured, rare and endangered species were deliberately reintroduced, including takahē, kōkako, tīeke (saddleback), hihi, kākāriki, and the kiwi pukupuku (little spotted kiwi) — several of which now survive almost nowhere else on New Zealand's mainland or near-mainland islands. Tūī, among the most visible and vocal birds you'll see on Tiritiri Matangi, are a familiar native species rather than a reintroduction, thriving here simply because the restored forest now supports them.
The island's lighthouse predates this conservation story by well over a century. Built in 1864, it's New Zealand's oldest continuously operating lighthouse — a cast-iron tower prefabricated in Britain and shipped out in half-ton sections, hauled up the hill by bullocks. Originally lit with colza (rapeseed) oil, it switched to paraffin in 1880 and ran a Xenon gas lamp from 1965 reputed to be the brightest light in the Southern Hemisphere, before being converted to solar power and fully automated in 1990.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
