Glacier Valley Eco Tours

31/08/2026

Today is 10 years since we bought Glacier Valley Eco Tours!!

We started with 1 old inherited van, and 2 guides back in 2016. Now we have 2 new vans & 1 private tour car, and 5 guides on for the busy summer seasons.

Its been a journey, lots of learning and laughs, hard times & good times, amazing staff & awesome clients.
Thanks to our local community & businesses for all your support over the last 10 years, as well as all our inbound & outbound agents & suppliers, DWC, Jase at Katabatic & business mentors we have had.

21/08/2026

We love you ! 🌿👣🐦

21/07/2026

Glacier Valley Eco Tours are looking for passionate and energetic Nature Guides for this coming summer season here in Franz Josef!

If you LOVE nature & being out in it all day & being part of a small family business - give us a call today & get paid to walk & talk in beautiful Glacier Country 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️‍➡️🌳🍄🐦

Contact Tash & Cliff on [email protected] for full job description/more info. Applications close end of July (or when positions have been filled).

www.glaciervalley.co.nz

14/06/2026

Our lead guide Cliff explaining how the Southern Alps were formed to our private group from the USA (who were accompanied by their own geologist) on our Franz Josef Nature Tour.

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06/06/2026

Maybe fairies do live here?🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Come find them with us at Glacier Valley Eco Tours 🌱

Link in bio for more information!

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05/06/2026

My favourite tree on our guide-only tracks - so many colours and textures 🙌👌

04/06/2026

The last of the entoloma hochstetteri here this season 🍄☹️

27/05/2026

22/05/2026

21/05/2026

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BIODIVERSITY DAY!

A huge thanks from Cliff and myself at Glacier Valley Eco Tours to our clients who donated to the Ōkārito Plant Project in the last year 🙌
This is an option they have at checkout on our online booking system, or in person in our office.

$465 was donated online - this is approx 70 native riparian trees in the ground locally in Ōkārito, Whataroa and Fox Glacier ❤️

The Ōkārito Plant Project is a circular economy based on the Jobs for Nature model, uniquely created by us at the Ōkārito Native Plants Trust.
It brings tourists, tourism businesses, their staff, volunteers and farmers together to enhance and restore biodiversity directly to South Westland, fostering wellbeing, social connections & a better connection to nature - in the place we live.

The above private lifestyle farm is nearly completed its riparian planting along this creek, which runs through dairy farms and out to the Waitangitahuna river, Whataroa. The next few years will be maintenance checks to make sure the trees stay alive & healthy.