Take a prospecting adventure into the romance and intrique of discovering your own West Coast Treasures. Gold in your pan within one hour guaranteed!
Visitors choose Shantytown (a recreated 1860's goldrush town with steam train and gold claim) or going into the nearby goldfields country as the guest of a local prospector to his gold claim.
Meet a back country gold prospector who will reveal to you his lifetime secrets on how to find and pan for your own gold. He will issue you with your personal Goldseekers Licence to ensure that nobody can accuse you of claim jumping! He will treat you to billy tea with a dram of the goldrush 'Stags Breathe' elixir of life liquere as you seek your fortune on the Goldfields.
With gold in your pocket you will visit a Greenstone site in search of the treasured New Zealand Jade, locally known as Pounamu. There's Gold in them thar hills...
PLUS...To make sure you really are getting good value, we will give you a voucher for discounts & free stuff at places around the West Coast. You can pick up an absolutely FREE Big Mac, FREE Email, FREE Goldpanning at Shantytown, a FREE Beer/wine, a FREE Dessert at a local restaurant with your meal, discount hostel beds & heaps of other stuff. Worth up to $428. Click here for more info on our West Coast Bonus Saver Pass.