We enjoyed our visit to this eco-sanctuary. While it is not as grand as Zealandia in Wellington, it has a good collection of birds (in walk-in aviaries), tuataras and small lizards. It has an indoor Kiwi exhibit and the eel feeding show in the afternoon is entertaining. Walking along the parks and observing the different flora was delightful. Well worth visiting and you can easily spend a few hours here.

Absolutely fabulous couple of hours with my wee 4 year old Grand niece, we both loved our time here. She was interested, captivated and had fun. Loved you could take your own picnic in.

We stayed at Theo's Cottage and had the whole reserve to ourselves overnight! We'd had a look around the reserve in the day and thoroughly enjoyed the nature walk, which had beautiful bush, a picturesque view from a view tower, full of birdlife and eellife(!), as well as enclosures of tuatara, kiwi, kea, kaka, ducks galore, geckos, and skinks. The staff were all very good but we'd highlight Mark for the welcome, thorough orientation to our cottage, and for arranging a night tour, to Diane for the kiwi night tour, where she went above and beyond, and Rhys for our day tour the next day. This was a highlight of our trip. This is a great reserve in itself but the accommodation made for a perfect getaway.

We visited here when we had a spare day when touring from Wellington. We had been to Zealanda on a previous trip and decided to visit Naga Manu. We got the train from Wellington(0ne hour) and were kindly picked up from the station. The train trip had spectacular views along the coast to Kapati Island. We loved our visit here and paid extra to go with Robyn to feed the birds and did a circular walk after. This is a lovely place with friendly staff that is worthy of lots of visitors. This is a great project and we wish it continued success.