NEW ZEALAND TOURS FOR MATURE TRAVELLERS

Because beautiful New Zealand remains on your travel bucket list, and you’ve never lost your spirit of adventure. 

We started ZigZag Tours to cater to the growing number of ‘mature adventurers’ that are exploring the world on overland trips for months at a time. But unlike some of those larger, more impersonal  tours, our 2024 Mercedes AWD vehicle is designed to comfortably transport just ten overlanders at a time. 

Though we won’t ever turn away a younger explorer, our tours are definitely designed with the more mature overlander in mind. This means as much culture, history, landscapes and ‘wow’ moments as we can muster, and a much lower emphasis on binge-drinking, doof-doof music, and getting home at 4am (….although getting up to watch a 4am sunrise can be stunning!!)

Our ZigZag Tours include a number of unique activities that we can’t wait for you to experience. All of them are entirely optional, and are not strenuous. 

However, we do suggest that our overlanders maintain a moderate level of fitness while on the tour to ensure that they don’t miss out on all the additional adventures that they can opt to do in the great New Zealand outdoors.     

Nothing allows you to connect with New Zealand’s extraordinary natural beauty quite like sleeping ‘under canvas’, and on a ZigZag tour, we provide you with your very own ‘easy to erect’ tent. Check out ‘Our Equipment’ here.     

We carefully selected each campsite, hostel, lodge and cabin while we toured New Zealand for four months in 2022. Every one of our accommodation options was chosen to ensure comfort, security, and proximity to nearby attractions and activities for all of our passengers. Indeed, many of the places that we stay at on tour are attractions themselves - you’ll be happy just to sit in your ZigZag chair and watch the world go by.