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We spend our working days in the Matukituki Valley, so people ask us about it more than they ask about the boat. These pages are the answers: what Rob Roy Glacier is actually like to walk to, what Mount Aspiring National Park is and how you get into it, what the valley is, how the drive from Queenstown works, and what to do with a wet day or a winter one. No sales pitch beyond the obvious, which is that we can take you up there in half a day.
- Rob Roy Glacier: the track, the road with the fords, and the view of it from the river.
- Mount Aspiring National Park: what it is, the three ways in, and the only jet boat that takes you to the foothills of Mt Aspiring.
- The Matukituki Valley and River: two branches, a braided glacier river, and what is up there.
- Queenstown to Wānaka: the drive, both routes, and the day trip worth doing.
- Wānaka on a rainy day: what runs, what is better wet, honestly ranked.
- Wānaka in winter: what runs, what closes, and what it is like.
And the trip all of it points at: the Wanaka jet boat and wilderness walk, half a day from the Wānaka i-SITE, ages four and up.