Wanaka horse trekking

26/06/2025

Welcome to Wanaka Horse Trekking 🐴🌿Where your next unforgettable adventure begins…Tucked away in the breathtaking hills of the South Island, we offer guided horse treks with views that will wow you around every corner — think rolling farmland, sparkling lake, and mountain peaks that seem to go on forever.🐎 12 incredible horses — each with their own personality👩‍🌾 Woman-owned, locally run🧡 Perfect for first-timers and experienced riders📍Just 10 minutes from Wanaka town📸 Oh — and the photos? Next level.Come ride with us, slow down, and reconnect — with nature, with animals, and with yourself.✨ Would you choose a 1-hour scenic ride or a 2-hour trek to the top of the world? Drop your pick below 👇.....

27/09/2024

Out on the trail with our big gentle giant “Big Boy” who is around 650kg of pure love 🐎 He can definitely come alive, sometimes all of a sudden but because he is so big everything feels like its in sloooowmootion. We also found out he is the best kids horse, and now also top model. 📸 Photos taken by the amazing

29/08/2024

Some amazing shots by the talented Bri 📸
This was such a cool afternoon, because the weather had turned super windy! But then exactly as we went out the wind stopped, and the sun did its job and turned into a beautiful golden hour.

I really enjoy working with creatives like photographers, and videographers. I hope we get to do some more throughout the time. In the meantime we will just keep practising our model skills 💃🏻

13/08/2024

Wooow look at these amazing water shots took when we went riding a few weeks ago.

Its amazing how insta can bring strangers together like this. You can say a lot about social media but I have met some amazing people through it over the years.

Super happy I rode with Huia again from and this time Rachel from too!! If you don’t follow them yet, go do that now, they both post amaaazing horsey content.

15/07/2024

We say: Couples who ride together… 💕

We have had some cold days but you guys have been amazing, and we have had such great times. It has been so beautiful even with the cloud, and frost ☃️❄️

I keep being amazed by nature how great she is with putting on a show.

25/05/2024

A good friend of mine shot these amazing photos a little over a year ago when we only open since a month.

We truly love this beautiful location. Did you know we are located on a private station? They are the nicest people, and we will be forever grateful they let us have the business on the land.

The station is a working farm with sheep, deer, and cows, and guaranteed you will a few of them during our ride.

14/05/2024

Well this definitely deserved to be featured in a post. What a special gift this was from mother nature.

We went outside and saw right away the pinkish sky. But only when we started to take the photos we really saw what it was. It made us want to keep taking photos of course because it kept changing!

What an amazing phenomenon this is 💜💙
I feel so lucky I got to experience this and I wished it wasn’t as freezing that night. Otherwise I would have been lying in the grass all night long. Did you get to see it?

26/02/2024

You guys remember when this beautiful lady came over for a ride? Her name is Chelsea and she is an amazing photographer, model, and content creator. She was super inspiring and it was so great hanging out together and going on a ride.

She had brought her super nice camera on the ride and together we shot some of these photos. Aren’t they amaaaazing ✨👏🏼?! I love them so much, and super grateful for them.

We got along so well that we started talking about hosting a retreat here some day with the two of us. Containing riding, horsemanship, maybe some yoga, meditation, amazing food, who knows sky is the limit. Would you be in for this?

16/01/2024

A month ago I was invited to be a part of a “men’s retreat at a beautiful station. They asked of I could show what “horsemanship” is about.

The men had never really been around horses much, and I had no idea if they were going to like it. To me horsemanship is so amazing: connecting with a horse from the ground. This doesn’t mean cuddles and carrots but it means you have to become their leader. And how that works in the horse world is quite different from our “predator” world. To connect, set boundaries, communicate you have to work on yourself first. It comes from the inside of you, and inly then a horse will want to be with you.

Every horse is different too, just like humans. Some are shy, some want to be in your face, some are distracted, and we have to work with what they show us, and we can’t make them. Especially not at liberty.

It can be very humbling if you are open to it, and you can take these lessons into daily life. The guys were sooo great!! We had such a good time and I was so happy with how the horses were in a new environment. I am really looking forward to more events like this with 📸

06/01/2024

Looove this photo!! So cool to be able to model with my amazing horses, and Nathan! Such a good memory, thank you so much!

Samantha Goos, the owner and guide at , gallops on Big Boy by the shores of Lake Wānaka. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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