Nature Quest

Your New Zealand natural history and birding experts

Your natural history and birding experts

New Zealand, Western Australia, Tasmania, New Caledonia

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    Mt Cook buttercup (Ranunculus lyallii)
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    Tree ferns (Dicksonia and Cyathea spp)
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    Lancewood (Pseudopanax crassifolius)
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    Celmisia semicordata
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    Mistletoe (Peraxilla tetrapetala)
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    Speargrass (Aciphylla squarrosa)
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    Fern (Blechnum discolour)
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    Majestic lowland podocarp rainforest
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    Gentians on Pisa Range
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    Forest Walk at Lake Moeraki Lodge
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Botanical Tours

Our botanical tour offers you the chance to visit some of New Zealand’s most spectacular habitats.

Our guides will take you to areas that are normally difficult to get to, where the mountains are magnificent, but you will also enjoy exploring beech forests, coastline and beautiful lakes. There is even the opportunity to take to the ocean to see sperm whales and albatrosses.

The native flora of New Zealand is rich and unique, having evolved in isolation for millions of years. No fewer than 80% of New Zealand’s native plants and trees are endemic. Although few have showy flowers, the variety of foliage colour, texture and shape is remarkable.

Highlights can include

  • 93% of New Zealand’s alpine plants are found nowhere else in the world
  • Primeval rain forest dominated by ancient podocarps and tree ferns at Pureora
  • Mount Arthur spectacular alpine flora
  • Blackbirch, Mt Hutt scree plants
  • Mount Cook National Park and its spectacular Hooker Valley
  • Gertrude Cirque, which has arguably one of the finest accessible communities of alpine plants in the Southern Hemisphere
  • You will be delighted by species of Ranunculus, Celmisia, Aciphylla, Raoulia, Donatia, Ourisia, Swainsona and many more

Our guides are botanists and naturalists who are passionate about New Zealand’s flora and have a lifetime of experience and knowledge about its ecology. We can provide transport throughout, all necessary permits and charters, accommodation and meals as requested, species lists and a detailed background ecology booklet relating to areas visited and species viewed.

We also run botanical tours in Tasmania, Western Australia and New Caledonia.

Botanical Tours Enquiry

Upcoming botanical tours departures

New Zealand

  • 10-28 January 2020 – optional trip extension to 2 February

Western Australia

  • 5-18 September 2019
  • 23 September to 10 October 2019
  • 3-20 September 2020

New Caledonia

  • 12-26 August 2019

Please contact us for more information and additional departure dates.

Jon and Marilynn
Jon and Marilynn

Our deepest thanks for your knowledge and guidance these last two weeks. This itinerary has broadened our horizons. We truly enjoyed your country, your knowledge and this remarkable experience.

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  • Nature Quest is a premier nature, botanical and birding tour operator in Australasia.
    Join us to design your once-in-a-lifetime New Zealand or Australia adventure.
  • We are specialists in designing natural history and custom tours based on a deep understanding of New Zealand and a passion for sharing and exploring our wild places.
  • Nature Quest has three decades of experience in guiding and planning customised nature experiences.
  • Our ever developing tour operations offer perhaps the most definitive selection of nature, birding and educational journeys in New Zealand.

We can create an unforgettable experience including:

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PO Box 6314
Dunedin 9059
New Zealand

Ph +64 3 477 9922
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