Canterbury Travel Guide

New Zealand

Akaroa featuring a coastal town and general coastal views

Mount Cook National Park showing a river or creek, tranquil scenes and mountains

Canterbury featuring a lake or waterhole, landscape views and mountains

Canterbury featuring a river or creek, a bridge and wild flowers

Canterbury

Popular cities in Canterbury

Christchurch

Christchurch awaits: its gardens, museums, parks and more!

Reasons to visit

Lyttelton Harbour
Sumner Beach
Hagley Park

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Mount Cook National Park

Explore quaint Mount Cook: its mountain views, hiking, kayaking and more!

Reasons to visit

Mount Cook National Park
Aoraki / Mount Cook
Hooker Valley Track

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Lake Tekapo showing mountains, wild flowers and a lake or waterhole

Explore quaint Lake Tekapo: its lake views, hiking, mountain views and more!

Reasons to visit

Tekapo Springs
Church of the Good Shepherd
Sheepdog Statue

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Timaru

Explore upscale Timaru: its bars, opera, spas and more!

Reasons to visit

Trevor Griffiths Rose Garden

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Hanmer Springs

Trip time! Discover the spas, hot springs and forests in romantic Hanmer Springs.

Reasons to visit

Hanmer Springs Thermal Reserve

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Rangiora

Come to Rangiora and enjoy its riverfront, spas and bars.

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Top cities in Canterbury

Akaroa Albury Amberley Arthur's Pass Arthur's Pass National Park Arthur's Pass Village Ashburton Ashburton Lakes Ashwick Flat Ben Ohau Birchwood Birdlings Flat Burkes Pass Castle Hill Charteris Bay Cheviot Christchurch (and vicinity)Clarence Coal Stream Craigieburn Forest Park Darfield Diamond Harbour Domett Duvauchelle Fairlie Ferniehurst Gammack Geraldine Glenavy Glenbrook Glentanner Gore Bay Hanmer Springs Hapuku Hororata Kaiapoi Kaikōura Kimbell Kirwee Kurow Lake Coleridge Lake Pearson Lake Pukaki Lake Tekapo Le Bons Bay Leeston Leithfield Lincoln Little Akaloa Little River Long Bay Lyford Mangamaunu Methven Motunau Mount Cook Mount Cook Village Mount Somers Mt Lyford Ohau Ohoka Okains Bay Omarama Otematata Oxford Peel Forest Pegasus Peketa Pigeon Bay Port Levy Prebbleton Pukaki Purau Quailburn Rakaia Rangiora Rolleston Snowdon Southbridge Springfield Staveley Tai Tapu Takamatua Tasman River Tekapo Temuka Timaru Totara Peak Twizel Valetta Waiau Waikuku Beach Waimate Wainui Waipapa Bay Waipara West Melton Windwhistle Woodend

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