Matakana Gardens and Arts Tour

Gardens & Art Tour includes food, wine and garden & art locations

Discover inspiration for your own creative interests or simply enjoy a fun day out with friends. Embark on a journey deep into the world of our talented local artists and green fingers, soaking up their beautiful art works and picturesque gardens.

Itinerary

• Visit a beautiful garden
• Enjoy a tour round a hand-made pottery factory & gallery
• Stroll a picturesque sculpture trail
• Indulge in wine tasting & lunch
• Visit a local art gallery

Duration
6 hours

Times
Ex Auckland, 8.30am – 3.30pm
Ex Matakana, 9.30am – 2.30pm

Price
Ex Auckland $395 pp
Ex Matakana $315 pp
Minimum 4 pax

Includes

• Morning tea & Antipasto platter lunch
• Clifftop coastal garden visit
• Sculpture trail
• Wine tasting
• Art Gallery
• Pottery factory tour
• Door-to-door transport
• Local guide, maps & water

Our vehicles are comfortable, air conditioned vehicles.

Highlights

• Visit Omaio Garden, meaning a place of 'peace and tranquility' in Maori. Walk the trails that weave through 7.2 hectares of mainly NZ natives. Enjoy morning tea with the creator, Liz Morrow.

• Meander along a 2.5km trail dotted with a variety of artwork from sound installataions to floating sculptures. Set against the backdrop of nature and a stunning vineyard, this is where art & wine entwine.
  
  
• Enjoy a local Art Gallery showcasing a variety of contemporary, indoor and outdoor works across a variety of mediums. Soak up creations that include painting, object, photography, video, sculpture and installations.
  
  
• Tour NZ's largest producer of hand made pottery - the Morris and James Pottery Factory and Gallery. Home to unique highly glazed pottery, designs reflect the surrounding nature.
   
  
• There is the option to swap the pottery factory tour with a visit to the Matakana Botanicals Factory, previously known as Le Floriales.