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 your review Jürgen.
Great day out for the kids! Enjoyed feeding the giraffes.
Thank you so much for taking the time to review us following your visit to the Park Brandon. We are delighted you had such a great day out!
This is the place to go to get up close and personal with wildlife. The keepers are friendly and knowledgeable and you can get so close to the animals. On my visit all the big cats - tiger, Lions and cheetahs were so close and you had the chance to take great photos. The gorillas were outside playing and the lemurs and meerkats were cheeky as usual.
Thank you very much for your review Wendy, we are thrilled you were able to get up close to so many of our amazing animals and hope to see you again!
Awesome brought back memories from when I went as a child loved the feeding of giraffes and lions
Thank you so much for your review Marie! We are delighted that you loved feeding the giraffe and seeing the lions fed!
We were saddened to see how sad the gorilla , lions and tiger were. Surely more enrichment would do them good. The farmyard was a sad experience too. The otters enclosure was dirty. There were no monkeys, Zebra or Tasmanian devils visible. The grounds themselves could do with a lot more planting, new bright signs and imagination. We loved feeding the giraffes. We hope that Orana receives funding to make the animals lives better and to breath life back into this potentially amazing park.
Thank you for taking the time to write a review following your visit to the Park Annikah. Naturally, we are disappointed to hear the Park did not meet your expectations. Orana is set on 80 hectares and is home to over 90 different species of animals. The balance we aim to achieve in an open range setting is displaying animals in spacious exhibits whilst also not having visitors peer at specks in the distance. Over the years, we have worked hard to develop a range of interesting scheduled daily animal feed presentations enabling visitors to view our animals up close and to interact with the keepers during their public talks. We encourage visitors to follow this schedule to ensure they get the most out of their visit. Orana Wildlife Park is a registered charitable trust and not-for-profit organization. We heavily rely on gate takings to operate and in fact, over 60% of our income is derived from gate sales, so we thank you for visiting. Your support goes directly back into the Park and allows us to continue our conservation work, such as breeding kākāriki karaka for release to the wild. Thank you again for your feedback. We hope you will consider visiting us again.
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Jürgen Heidbüchel from Germany wrote on 31 January 2023
Schöner Tierpark
Schön angelegter Park mit interessanten Tieren und engagierte Mitarbeiter. Auch die Geschichte über die Erweiterungsstufen zeigt ein großes Engagement der Organisatoren/Conservation.