Off the Beaten Track Tour. 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 and down the hills, through the gullies and alongside the creek to discover some interesting characters and some of the […]
Tales from the Vaults 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 is 1 hour 45mins. This tour is suitable for people with moderate fitness. The route mostly follows paved surfaces but there are […]
Introduction to Karori Cemetery Tour. This short (45mins), 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. This tour runs at 11am and again at 12pm No booking required. Location: The Shelter, Karori Cemetery, 79 Old Karori […]
Evening Tour Would you like to join us and explore the beauty of Karori Cemetery in the evening? This tour is for anyone who would like to see the Cemetery through a different lens, as the landscape settles in from dusk to darkness. On this walk you'll be accompanied by two guides who will take […]
This tour is now booked out. We hope to run it again in the future, so please keep checking our Events page or follow us on Facebook. On the 12 February 1909, the SS Penguin sank in Cook Strait in a raging southerly storm with the loss of 72 lives, one of the worst […]
Off the Beaten Track Tour. 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 and down the hills, through the gullies and alongside the creek to discover some interesting characters and some of the […]
Introduction to Karori Cemetery Tour. This short (45mins), 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. This tour runs at 11am and again at 12pm No booking required. Location: The Shelter, Karori Cemetery, 79 Old Karori […]
Treasure from the Gully Tour through a very atmospheric part of the cemetery, with an eclectic mix of stories on an artist, photographer, hat manufacturer, prison reformer and many more! Come and enjoy the beauty of one of the most mystical places in the Cemetery with entertaining stories along the way. The tour will mostly […]