A private Skippers Canyon tour led by a genuine photographer guide.
A private tour for your group only, confirmed private — "instead of joining a group of strangers" — with a real photographer guide.
This is confirmed private: "instead of joining a group of strangers." A real photographer guide leads the genuine Skippers Canyon route.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point in Queenstown.
"Instead of joining a group of strangers."
Genuine photography expertise.
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, confirmed private — "instead of joining a group of strangers" — with a real photographer guide. This is confirmed private: "instead of joining a group of strangers." A real photographer guide leads the genuine Skippers Canyon route.
The Shotover River, which this tour follows for much of the way, earned a real reputation among 19th-century miners as "the richest river in the world" after gold was first found nearby in 1862 — though no official records survive to confirm exactly how much gold came out of it over the years. What's left today is the river itself, running far below the canyon road in a narrow schist gorge, which makes for one of the more dramatic backdrops in the Queenstown area precisely because so little of it has been altered since the gold-rush years.
Having a real photographer as your guide changes what this tour is built around: instead of a fixed script of photo stops, the pacing follows the light and the conditions on the day, which matters a lot on a route like Skippers Canyon where the gorge, the river, and the exposed schist cliffs look completely different depending on the angle of the sun.
Skippers Bridge is one of the standout subjects along the way — the current bridge, built between 1898 and 1900 and opened in March 1901, sits roughly 100 metres above the river between sheer rock walls, a long way up from the original 1866 suspension bridge it replaced, which sat only about 6 metres above the water and kept washing out in floods. Framed against the gorge, it's one of the few genuinely dramatic, 19th-century engineering subjects this close to Queenstown.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.