Experience the ultimate animal adventure at Orana Wildlife Park - New Zealand's only open range zoo!
Orana is located within 15 minutes’ drive of Christchurch Airport and is home to some of New Zealand’s and the world’s critically endangered species.
Connect with wildlife at New Zealand’s only open range zoo by hand feeding majestic giraffe; getting up close with magnificent white rhino; travelling through the Lion Reserve (costs additional), hanging out in our two large walkthrough aviaries, meeting New Zealand’s national icon, the kiwi, watching our delightful spider monkeys swinging around their island, hand feeding friendly farmyard animals or jumping aboard our safari shuttle for a guided tour of the Park.
Join our walkabout guides as they meander the Park following our daily animal presentations.
The Park has a large children’s playground with a 50m flying fox, picnic tables are dotted throughout the Park.
NB: Bookme vouchers cannot be used in conjunction with any other deals/promotions Orana Wildlife Park offers.
***Orana is an outdoor venue so we recommend checking the weather prior to booking***
All prices are shown in NZD ($)
Thank you so much for taking the time to write a review Soohyeon, we are pleased to hear you had an amazing visit!
한국의 동물원과는 상당히 다른 느낌입니다. 우선 동물들이 생기가 넘쳐요. 비록 키위는 보지못했지만 치타, 코뿔소, 고릴라, 오랑우탄 등은 생소한 동물이기도 하지만 생기가 넘쳐서 기대없이 갔다가 만족했네요. 시간되면 가보세요.
We purchased our tickets online through book me, with our focus being the native birds, especially the Keas. On arrival we were informed the Kea enclose was closed due to the introduction of a young Kea being introduced. Expressing our disappointment, the team at check in, rang the keeper and confirmed the did only two keeper talks a week and one was later that morning. We were lucky with our days as it allowed us to view several exhibits before the talk in the enclosure, where the Kea had an enrichment feeding. Being the only talk was it was crowded, but the Kea where very close. At the end we asked the keeper when she was feeding the native birds and she said straight afterwards. We headed to the walk-through native bird aviary and as strangely we were the only people in it with the keeper, it spent ages as my wife had a great time photographing birds as they came to feed. If you want to see the Kea ring and check if/when talks/enrichment are on.
Really sad, barely see animals went around 1, also some animal encounters are so far you need binoculars to see them. Zoo is run down, needs a massive upgrade haven’t been back since I was in primary school, and it looks the same from 20 years ago except run down. Food was good, keepers were awesome, but the animals seem depressed, tiger feeding time was sad, literally just chucked a box of meat for them to rip open.
Felt awful paying to shit this shit show. Animals look sad. Terrible dirty enclosures, half enclosures empty. Gorillas looked depressed sat in a concrete block and the poor lonely tiger pacing up and down. Will never ever go back or recommend. Needs closing down. One star for café
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Soohyeon Choi from South Korea wrote on 10 October 2023
Amazing trip
한국에 있는 동물원보다 훨씬 크고 종류도 다양합니다!! 충분한 시간적 여유를 가진날 가는걸 추천드립니다:) 걸어서 다보는데 저는 3-4시간 걸렸어요 다만 안쪽에 있어서 그런지 동물원안에서 통신은 잘 터지지않습니다 그리고 코끼리 열차 같은 것도 있어서 걷기 싫거나 힘드신분은 열차 탑승 추천합니다