Central Otago, New Zealand offers scenic landscapes and several small towns with unique attractions and activities. There are seven guided tours that showcase the Royal Albatross Colony, Yellow-eyed Penguins, Moeraki Boulders, a gold mine, and rail adventures. The region enjoys winter sports like snowboarding when temperatures occasionally drop below -22°C. Visitors can also go scuba diving, windsurfing, boating, fishing, swimming, and picnicking. Several hotels ranging in price from $90-155 per night provide accommodation.

1. TOURS
TOWNS AND CITYS
Seven personally guided tours
designed to show you Otago's truly
There is lots of towns and cities in the unique attractions. Royal Albatross O TAG O
otago area. Alexandra is a good place to go Colony and Yellow-eyed Penguins of
because you can go the blossom Otago Peninsula, curious Moeraki
festival.Cromwell is set in spectacular Boulders, the working McRae's Gold
Mine, Otago Rail Adventure Tour. Central Otago enjoys a real
landscape the big brown hills awesome winter - snow, ice and amazing
valleys, dramatic lakes and gorges. TIPS FROM THE LOCALS.... hoar frosts. The historic town of
make sure you take advantage of the Ophir has the honour of being
the coldest place in New Zealand
variety of awesome tours and actives in
- temperatures as low as -22°C
There is about sixty hotels and motels central outage there is scuba diving, have been recorded. Locals and
there is also great place to eat and bars. wind surfing,boating, fishing,swimming and visitors make the most of winter
There is parks and playgrounds for picnicking. sports such as snow boarding,
children. there is an art visit on in the wind surfing,iceskating and
MOERAKI BOULDERS . central otago on the 6th of october hiking.
2011. there is more than 105 events
coming up in the otago area.
The Moeraki Boulders are
unusually large and spherical
boulders lying along a stretch of
Koekohe Beach on the wave cut
and are located Otago coast .

2. Coastal regions of Otago are
subject to the alternating warm
and dry/cool and wet weather
I F Y O U WA N T T O B O O K T I C K E T S
patterns common to the THERE IS A HELPFUL WEBSITE
CALLED 100% PURE NEW ZEALAND
interannual Southern oscillation. H E R E A R E S O M E H O T E L S ."
The Southern Hemisphere storm
track produces an irregular short
cycle of weather which repeats
This hotel is worth 140$ a night.
roughly every week, with three or
four days of fine weather followed
by three or four days of cooler,
damp conditions. Drier conditions
are often the result of the
northwesterly föhn wind, which
dries as it crosses the Southern This hotel is worth 90$ a night.
Alps. Wetter air is the result of "
approaching low-pressure
systems which sweep fronts over
the country from the southwest. A
common variant in this pattern is
This hotel is worth 155$ a night.
the centring of a stationary low- Dating back to 1883, this landmark
pressure zone to the southeast of building now blends Dunedin’s you want more detail PH:0044 20 3320 2628
the country, resulting in long- distinctive charm and heritage with the
modern day comforts guests demand.
lasting cool, wet conditions. These
Your every comfort is well provided for,
have been responsible for several with 178 attractive rooms and suites,
notable historical floods. extensive hotel facilities, and a very high
standard of service.