Willowbank Wildlife Reserve

Christchurch


Willowbank focuses on native NZ critters (including kiwi), heritage farmyard animals and hands-on enclosures with wallabies, deer and lemurs. There's also a re-created Māori village, the setting for the evening Ko Tane. It's 10km north of town, near the airport.


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