This short (30-40min), free, tour outlines the development of Karori Cemetery since the first burial in August 1891, traversing the earliest burial areas which contain many interesting memorials and monuments. […]

Find out who is in and who is out of some of Karori cemetery’s most substantial dwellings. Note: tours do not enter vaults or try them out for size. The tour duration […]

Apologies this tour is now sold out.   On the 12 February 1909, the SS Penguin sank in Cook Strait in a raging southerly storm with the loss of 72 […]

Apologies but this tour has now sold out. To be notified of when we make tours available, please follow us on Humanitix. https://events.humanitix.com/host/62dcc703173dab0b2ae6e360 In total, 85 people have been executed […]

Hear about a poet, a writer, soldiers and stories of Wellington history. Further Catholic Tales tells the stories of the wide range of people interred in the section known as Catholic […]

Apologies but this tour is now sold out. In total, 85 people have been executed for crime in New Zealand with the first in 1842 and the last in 1957. […]

Apologies but this tour has now sold out. Karori Cemetery is the final resting place for people whose lives ended tragically – from drowning, from murder, and from accidents of […]

Stretch your legs on this tour! Off the Beaten Track takes you off the main road, exploring a bit further into the older sections of Karori Cemetery. We walk up […]

Come and hear tales from our military history. The tour duration is 1 hour 30mins. The tour mostly follows paved surfaces but there are some areas of unevenness. Tours are […]