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.
Impressed by the attentive, informative staff at the lion feeding and African Painted dogs feeding times. Spent 3hrs walking around and could have stayed another hour to have seen everything.
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.
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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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