Nelson, New Zealand City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Nelson, New Zealand Travel Guide has been your connection to Nelson's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Nelson Attractions
 The diversity of the Nelson landscape offers the bed and breakfast visitor a variety of options of things to see and do. If you’re a bed and breakfast adventurer, Nelson is near three distinctly diverse national parks. Abel Tasman National Park, although New Zealand’s smallest park, will astound the bed and breakfast visitor with its golden sandy beaches and sculptured granite rock cliffs. Sea kayaking, sailing and beachcombing are all wonderful activities available for the bed and breakfast visitor to enjoy. Glaciers, offering rugged peaks, forests and glacial lakes challenging hikers and mountaineers of all levels, have sculpted the landscape of Nelson Lakes National Park. Kahurangi National Park is truly a treasure that the bed and breakfast visitor will want to uncover. Within the parks boundaries, the bed and breakfast adventurer will find some of New Zealand’s oldest rocks, strangest plants and unique birds. The Heaphy Track, the park’s ‘Great Walk’, traverses subtropical rainforest, hassock high country, river valley and coast. The five-mile walk along the Boulder Bank is a unique and memorable experience for the bed and breakfast guest to take part in. Cave tours, skydiving, white water rafting, whale watching and golf are other exciting outdoor activities for the Nelson bed and breakfast guest to consider. Your Nelson bed and breakfast innkeepers will gladly direct you to reliable tour operators and equipment purveyors.
For the bed and breakfast visitor with an interest in architecture, Nelson has preserved many of the Victorian buildings that make up its historic center. Nelson Cathedral is perhaps its most dramatic, however, other places of interest include Amber House, Victorian Rosewood Pub, and Nelson Central School. Your bed and breakfast innkeepers could assist in planning a walking tour of these landmarks buildings, as Nelson is small enough to conveniently explore on foot. Museums of interest for the bed and breakfast visitor to consider in Nelson are the Nelson Provincial Museum and the World of Wearable Art.
Take a day to discover wine making and wine tasting in the Nelson region. Bay Tours Nelson offers specialized tours worthy of consideration relieving the bed and breakfast guest of the responsibility of driving.
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