Water

Get up close and personal to the largest wingspan in the world!

Where: Kaikoura

Cost $80 Adult, $40 Child

This is the underground version of white water rafting, except you are not sitting together in one raft, instead make you way though the cave with wetsuits, gumboots and flashlights on your helmet and float down parts of the caves in rubber inner tyre tubes! Some of the more challenging trips also incorporate abseiling down waterfalls, and a flying fox.

Where:  Waitomo

Cost: from $85-$335.

This is a Kiwi invention designed to scare you to death, then revive you with  some skillful manoeuvres. You are totally at the mercy of your driver.

Where: Rotorua, Taupo, Bay of Plenty, Taumarunui, Wanganui, Motueka, Nelson, Rakaia, Hanmer, Christchurch, Queenstown, Kurow  and Riverton.

Cost: from $65 to $129.

Get really close to nature and build up your arm muscles at the same time with some kayaking or canoeing. One to four day trips with or without a guide  are offered at several  places.

Where: Bay of Islands, Northland, Auckland, Coromandel, Rotorua, Taupo, Bay of Plenty, Wanganui, Masterton, Motueka, Nelson, Akaroa, Te Anau, Milford Sound, Doubtful Sound, Lake Manapouri, Riverton and Stewart Island.

Cost: from $30 a day unguided, $60 guided.

As New Zealand is a country of rivers, there are numerous places for white water rafting.

Where: Rotorua, Taupo, Bay of Plenty, Turangi, Tongariro National Park, Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Greymouth, Westport, Murchison, Queenstown and Christchurch.

Cost: from $60 to $165.

Take a boogie  board,  lie flat out on it, then plunge into the raging torrents of the nearest river. Got the hang of it? Sounds scary, apparently huge fun.

Where: Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, Queenstown and Wanaka.

Cost: from $95-$125.