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title: "Top 10 Things To Do in Dunedin, New Zealand | Wimup"
description: "The 10 best things to do in Dunedin, from the Taiaroa Head albatross colony to Baldwin Street and the 1906 railway station. Where to eat, wildlife, day trips and a full fact sheet."
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type: City guide
updated: 2026-10-06
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# Top 10 Things To Do in Dunedin

Dunedin, New Zealand · Oceania · By Wimup Editorial, 15 min read

Dunedin makes a virtue of not being tropical. The weather comes off the Southern Ocean, the light is low and long, and the wildlife that draws people here (albatross, yellow-eyed penguins, sea lions asleep on public beaches) likes cold water. Add a student city of 130,000 with a brewing habit and a warehouse district full of murals.

## Quick answer

Give Dunedin three days. Two belong to the Otago Peninsula, a 30 km finger of farmland and cliff that ends at Taiaroa Head, the only place on any mainland where royal albatross breed. The third stays in town, where a Scottish settlement of 1848 spent its gold-rush money on stone: a railway station like a wedding cake, two free museums and an Edwardian merchant house. Bring a car.

## Quick facts

- **Best months:** Dec · Jan · Feb · Mar
- **Ideal length:** 3–4 days
- **Budget per day:** NZ$180–320
- **Language:** English
- **Getting around:** Walking, buses & a hire car
- **Tourism board:** [Official site](https://www.dunedinnz.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## The 10 best things to do in Dunedin

### 1. Watch royal albatross at Taiaroa Head

Wildlife · Royal Albatross Centre, 1260 Harington Point Road, Otago Peninsula

Taiaroa Head is the only mainland breeding colony of northern royal albatross in the world, and the birds are visible only from a glassed observatory on a guided tour, because the headland is a reserve. The one-hour tour covers the colony; the 90-minute version adds Fort Taiaroa. Wind is the point rather than the problem: a blowy afternoon is the better booking.

- **Time:** 1–2 hrs
- **Cost:** Guided tour
- **Best at:** Windy afternoons
- **Tip:** Book the tour slot

Links: [Website](https://albatross.org.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 2. Stand in the Dunedin Railway Station booking hall

Landmark · 22 Anzac Avenue, Dunedin Central

George Troup designed this in Flemish Renaissance style and opened it in 1906, which earned him the nickname Gingerbread George and gave Dunedin a station far grander than its traffic ever justified. The booking hall floor is a mosaic of roughly 750,000 Minton tiles. Entry costs nothing, and on a Saturday morning the northern carpark is a farmers market.

- **Time:** 30–45 min
- **Cost:** Free
- **Best at:** Saturday morning
- **Tip:** Look down, then up

Links: [Website](https://dunedinrailways.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 3. Work through Toitū Otago Settlers Museum

Museum · 31 Queens Gardens, Dunedin Central

The best single explanation of why this city looks the way it does. Toitū runs from Kāi Tahu occupation through the Free Church settlement of 1848 and the Otago gold rush that funded the stone, and it does it with objects and faces rather than panels of text. Admission is free, special exhibitions aside. Two hours is the honest minimum.

- **Time:** 2 hrs
- **Cost:** Free
- **Best at:** Any weekday
- **Tip:** Start with the portrait gallery

Links: [Website](https://www.toituosm.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 4. Tour Larnach Castle and its gardens

Historic house · 145 Camp Road, Otago Peninsula

New Zealand has exactly one castle and this is it, built from 1871 by the banker and politician William Larnach and rescued from ruin by the Barker family from 1967. The house is worth the ticket for the ceilings alone, but the gardens hold the view: the whole harbour, both sides, from a ridge halfway down the peninsula. It opens every day of the year.

- **Time:** 2 hrs
- **Cost:** Ticketed
- **Best at:** Clear middays
- **Tip:** Climb the tower for the harbour view

Links: [Website](https://www.larnachcastle.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 5. Walk down through the sandstone at Tunnel Beach

Coast · Tunnel Beach Track, off Blackhead Road, Blackhead

A short, steep track drops from farmland down a headland of carved sandstone to a hand-cut tunnel, commissioned in the 1870s so the Cargill family could reach their own beach. Seventy-two steps in the dark, then a small cove with an arch. The walk back up is the workout. The track crosses farmland and closes for lambing from August into November.

- **Time:** 1 hr
- **Cost:** Free
- **Best at:** Low tide
- **Tip:** Check the DOC page for closures

Links: [Website](https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/otago/places/dunedin-area/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 6. Spend a morning inside Orokonui Ecosanctuary

Wildlife · 600 Blueskin Road, Waitati

A predator-proof fence rings 307 hectares of regenerating forest north of the city, and inside it the birdsong is what the mainland sounded like before rats and stoats. Takahē, kākā, tuatara and South Island robins are all resident. It opens Thursday to Monday and closes Tuesday and Wednesday, which catches out more visitors than any other detail in this guide.

- **Time:** 2–3 hrs
- **Cost:** Ticketed
- **Best at:** Morning
- **Tip:** Closed Tuesday and Wednesday

Links: [Website](https://orokonui.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 7. Climb Baldwin Street, the steepest in the world

Landmark · Baldwin Street, North East Valley

A 350-metre residential street in North East Valley with a gradient of 34.8 percent at its worst, measured along the centre line. Guinness handed the title to a Welsh street in 2019 and gave it back in 2020 after a Dunedin surveyor challenged the method. Walking up takes ten minutes and is genuinely hard. People live here, so keep to the footpath.

- **Time:** 30 min
- **Cost:** Free
- **Best at:** Early morning
- **Tip:** Park at the bottom, walk up

### 8. See the Pacific gallery at Tūhura Otago Museum

Museum · 419 Great King Street, North Dunedin

The natural history and Pacific cultures collections are the reason to come, and the galleries are free. Upstairs, the ticketed Tūhura Science Centre includes a tropical butterfly house, which is a startling thing to walk into in a city this cold. Open daily 10am to 5pm, closed Christmas Day.

- **Time:** 2 hrs
- **Cost:** Galleries free
- **Best at:** Rainy days
- **Tip:** Science centre is ticketed

Links: [Website](https://otagomuseum.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 9. Take the guided tour of Olveston

Historic house · 42 Royal Terrace, Roslyn

A 35-room Edwardian merchant house completed in 1906 for the Theomin family and handed to the city in 1966 with its contents intact, down to the kitchen equipment and the art on the walls. Entry is by guided tour only, six a day, an hour each. The garden and shop are free to wander if you only want the exterior.

- **Time:** 1 hr
- **Cost:** Tour ticket
- **Best at:** Booked tour slots
- **Tip:** Six tours daily, reserve ahead

Links: [Website](https://www.olveston.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

### 10. Shop the Otago Farmers Market at the station

Market · Northern carpark, Dunedin Railway Station, 22 Anzac Avenue

Every Saturday from 8am to 12.30pm, in the shadow of the railway station, rain or otherwise. Up to 65 stallholders at peak season, all of them from the region: Otago stone fruit in summer, blue cod, cheese, venison, and the cheese rolls that are the local answer to a bacon sandwich. It is the best hour of eating in the city and it is over by lunchtime.

- **Time:** 1–2 hrs
- **Cost:** Free entry
- **Best at:** Saturday from 8am
- **Tip:** Bring a bag and cash

Links: [Website](https://otagofarmersmarket.org.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## Best wildlife experiences in Dunedin (2026)

Albatross, two species of penguin and sea lions, all within an hour of the Octagon.

1. **The OPERA (Penguin Place)** (Yellow-eyed penguins · guided · Harington Point): A private reserve protecting yellow-eyed penguins since 1985, viewed from a system of covered hides. Guided access only. [Website](https://theopera.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **Monarch Wildlife Cruises** (Harbour cruise · 1 hr · Wellers Rock): One-hour boat trip from Wellers Rock around Taiaroa Head, which is the only way to watch albatross from below. [Website](https://www.wildlife.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **Blue Penguins Pukekura** (Little penguins · dusk · Taiaroa Head): Little penguins coming ashore at dusk at Taiaroa Head, watched from a purpose-built platform. Tours sell out weeks ahead. [Website](https://www.bluepenguins.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
4. **Sandfly Bay** (Free · steep dune descent · Seal Point Road): A dune bowl with sea lions hauled out on the sand and yellow-eyed penguins coming in late. Part of the refuge closes 1 November to 28 February. [Website](https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/otago/places/otago-peninsula-area/things-to-do/sandfly-bay-track/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
5. **Allans Beach** (Free · flat walk in · Hoopers Inlet): A quieter alternative on the ocean side of the peninsula, regularly dotted with sea lions and fur seals. Give them 20 metres. [Website](https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/otago/places/otago-peninsula-area/things-to-do/allans-beach-walking-track/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## Best restaurants in Dunedin (2026)

Six tables that show what Otago produce does in the right hands.

1. **Moiety** (Set menu · fine dining · Warehouse Precinct): A small owner-operated room in the Warehouse Precinct serving one five-course menu built on Otago produce and wine. [Website](https://www.moiety.restaurant/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **No.7 Balmac** (Bistro · all day · Maori Hill): Cafe by day, bistro by night, up in Maori Hill. The kitchen runs an applewood grill and has done since 2009. [Website](https://www.no7balmac.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **Plato** (Seafood · waterfront · Steamer Basin): Seafood by the harbour in a former seafarers hotel, with a microbrewery in the old laundry. Entry is off Roberts Street. [Website](https://www.platocafe.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
4. **Bracken** (Degustation · whisky matches · Dunedin Central): A degustation restaurant that leans into the city's Scottish founding, with whisky matches offered alongside the wine. [Website](https://www.brackenrestaurant.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
5. **Vault 21** (Small plates · late · The Octagon): Asian-leaning small plates on the Octagon that turn into the late bar most weekend nights. [Website](https://vault21.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
6. **Vogel St Kitchen** (Cafe · wood-fired pizza · Warehouse Precinct): Wood-fired pizza and honest cafe cooking in a brick warehouse, and the easiest breakfast in the precinct. [Website](https://www.vogelstkitchen.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## Best bars and breweries in Dunedin (2026)

A brewing city since the 1870s, and still one.

1. **Emerson's Brewery & Taproom** (Brewery · taproom & tours · Anzac Avenue): The brewery that pushed New Zealand craft beer into the mainstream, with a taproom looking straight at the tanks and a tour of the brewhouse. [Website](https://emersons.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **Speight's Brewery** (Brewery tour · tasting · Rattray Street): Brewing on the same Rattray Street site since the 1870s. The tour runs through the historic and modern floors and ends in the tasting room. [Website](https://www.speights.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **The Duke of Wellington** (Pub · 20+ taps · Queens Gardens): A 1915 pub on Queens Gardens with a long tap list and a wood-panelled front bar that has not been modernised into anonymity.
4. **Albar** (Whisky bar · small · Stuart Street): A narrow Stuart Street bar with a serious whisky shelf, no music policy to speak of and the best conversation in the centre.
5. **Inch Bar** (Neighbourhood bar · North East Valley): A tiny neighbourhood bar in North East Valley, five minutes from Baldwin Street and the natural reward for climbing it.

## Best museums and galleries in Dunedin (2026)

Five collections beyond the two in the Top 10, most of them free.

1. **Dunedin Public Art Gallery** (Free · daily 10am–5pm · The Octagon): New Zealand's first public art gallery, founded in 1884 and free to enter, on the Octagon. Open daily 10am to 5pm. [Website](https://dunedin.art.museum/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
2. **Lan Yuan Dunedin Chinese Garden** (Scholar garden · ticketed · Rattray Street): One of the few authentic scholar gardens in the southern hemisphere, built in Shanghai in 2007, shipped south and reassembled. [Website](https://www.dunedinchinesegarden.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **Hocken Collections** (Free gallery · Tue–Sat · Anzac Avenue): The University of Otago's research library and archive, with a free public gallery drawing on one of the country's deepest historical collections. [Website](https://www.otago.ac.nz/library/hocken?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
4. **Dunedin Street Art Trail** (Free · self-guided · Warehouse Precinct): More than fifty commissioned murals across the centre, concentrated in the Warehouse Precinct. Free, self-guided, best on foot. [Website](https://dunedinstreetart.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
5. **Dunedin Gasworks Museum** (Sundays 12–4pm · South Dunedin): The engine house of the 1863 gasworks, with steam engines run under pressure. Open Sunday afternoons only. [Website](https://www.gasworksmuseum.org.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## Best beaches and coast in Dunedin (2026)

Cold water, big surf and a heated saltwater pool for when the Pacific wins.

1. **St Clair Beach** (Surf beach · patrolled in summer · St Clair): The city beach: surf breaks, a promenade of cafes and a set of century-old wooden poles that photograph better than anything else in Dunedin.
2. **St Clair Hot Salt Water Pool** (Heated to 28°C · seasonal · St Clair): An outdoor pool at the southern end of the beach, heated to 28 degrees, the last survivor of several built in the late 1800s. Seasonal. [Website](https://www.dunedin.govt.nz/community-facilities/swimming-pools/st-clair-pool?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
3. **St Kilda Beach** (Free · long flat sand · St Kilda): The longer, flatter continuation of St Clair, and the easier walk of the two. Joined end to end they run for several kilometres.
4. **Aramoana** (Free · harbour mouth · Aramoana): A settlement at the harbour mouth with a long mole to walk out on and a salt marsh behind it. Twenty-five minutes from the centre.
5. **Long Beach** (Free · climbing crag · Long Beach): A wide north-facing bay backed by cliffs that Dunedin climbers have been working since the 1950s. Sheltered when the south coast is not.

## Dunedin neighbourhoods worth your time

Four districts, and what each one is actually for.

1. **The Octagon** (City centre · walkable · Dunedin Central): The literal centre: an eight-sided plaza with the art gallery, the town hall, St Paul's Cathedral and most of the city's bars around it.
2. **Warehouse Precinct** (Food, bars & street art · Vogel & Bond Streets): Vogel and Bond Streets, where Victorian warehouses have become restaurants, roasters and mural walls. The best eating in the city is in six blocks.
3. **North Dunedin** (University & stadium · North Dunedin): The University of Otago quarter, with the 1879 clocktower building, the museum and Forsyth Barr Stadium, the only fully roofed natural turf stadium in the world.
4. **Port Chalmers** (Harbour village · 15 min drive · Port Chalmers): The deep-water port 13 km up the harbour, and a village of galleries, a good bakery and hillside houses looking back at the water.

## Best day trips from Dunedin (2026)

Five drives and one train, none of them more than a couple of hours out.

1. **Moeraki Boulders** (1 hr north · free · Koekohe Beach): Spherical septarian concretions on Koekohe Beach, about 75 km north and an hour's drive. Go at low tide or they are half underwater.
2. **Oamaru** (1.5 hrs north · Waitaki): A whole Victorian commercial district in white limestone, plus a blue penguin colony that comes ashore in the old quarry each evening. Ninety minutes north.
3. **Nugget Point, the Catlins** (1.5 hrs south · free · The Catlins): A lighthouse on a knife-edge ridge with sea stacks running out below it, and fur seals on the rocks. About 90 minutes south. [Website](https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/otago/places/catlins-coastal-area/things-to-do/nugget-point-tokata-walks/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
4. **The Taieri Gorge train** (Rail · from the station · Taieri Gorge): Heritage 1930s carriages out through hand-cut tunnels and over viaducts above the Taieri River, departing the railway station in the morning. [Website](https://dunedinrailways.co.nz/taieri-gorge/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
5. **Otago Central Rail Trail** (Cycling · Middlemarch end · Central Otago): A 150 km cycle trail on a closed railway formation between Middlemarch and Clyde. Hire a bike and ride a section as a day out. [Website](https://otagocentralrailtrail.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)

## Festivals & annual events in Dunedin (2026)

- **Highlanders home season** (Feb–Jun): Super Rugby under the clear roof of Forsyth Barr Stadium, the only fully covered natural turf ground in the world.
- **Otago Anniversary Day** (Late Mar): Regional public holiday marking the 1848 landing, observed on the Monday nearest 23 March.
- **Dunedin Fringe Festival** (Mar): Ten days of theatre, comedy and music across the city, and the largest fringe in the South Island.
- **Wild Dunedin, NZ Festival of Nature** (Apr): More than 150 walks, talks and guided wildlife events built around the peninsula and its birds.
- **Dunedin Midwinter Carnival** (Jun): A lantern procession through the centre on the longest nights of the year. Tickets go early.
- **Puaka Matariki Festival** (Jun–Jul): Three weeks of events for the Māori new year, run with mana whenua across the city.
- **NZ International Science Festival** (Jul): Held every second July since 1997, with a smaller NanoFest in the intervening years.
- **Dunedin Craft Beer & Food Festival** (Nov): The city's brewing scene plus visiting breweries, held at Forsyth Barr Stadium.

## Must-try dishes in Dunedin and Otago

- **Cheese rolls**: Bread rolled around cheese and onion soup mix, then toasted. Southern New Zealand's own snack.
- **Blue cod**: The South Island's default fish, firm and sweet, best battered at a harbourside chippy or grilled at Plato.
- **Bluff oysters**: Dredged from Foveaux Strait in a short, strictly managed season that runs across the southern winter.
- **Whitebait fritter**: Tiny inanga bound in egg and fried whole, eaten with lemon and nothing else. A spring dish, and expensive.
- **Central Otago Pinot Noir**: Grown two hours inland in the world's southernmost commercial wine region, and on every serious list in town.
- **Speight's Gold Medal Ale**: Brewed on Rattray Street since the 1870s. Ordering one here is closer to a civic ritual than a choice.
- **Hokey pokey ice cream**: Vanilla studded with honeycomb toffee, invented in New Zealand and still the national default.
- **Central Otago stone fruit**: Apricots, cherries and peaches from the inland orchards, at the farmers market from December.

## Dunedin transport & airports

- **Dunedin Airport** (DUD): The region's airport, at Momona southwest of the city. Domestic flights plus year-round services to the Gold Coast. No rail link, so plan a shuttle or hire car. [Website](https://www.dunedinairport.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- **Orbus Dunedin** (Bus): The city bus network, run by the Otago Regional Council and radiating from the Bus Hub on Great King Street. A Bee Card gets the cheaper adult fare; cash is accepted on board at a higher one. [Website](https://www.orc.govt.nz/orbus?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- **Dunedin Railway Station** (Rail): No scheduled long-distance passenger trains, but the 1906 station is the departure point for the Taieri Gorge and the coastal Seasider services run by Dunedin Railways. [Website](https://dunedinrailways.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- **Car hire and taxis** (Road): The centre walks in twenty minutes end to end, but the Otago Peninsula has one narrow harbourside road and a thin bus service. Hire a car for at least one day, or book a peninsula tour instead.

## Dunedin at a glance

- **Country:** New Zealand
- **Region:** Otago
- **Population:** 132,800 (Dunedin city, Stats NZ estimate, June 2025)
- **Founded:** 1848
- **Nickname:** Edinburgh of the South
- **Language:** English, with te reo Māori an official language
- **Currency:** New Zealand dollar (NZD)
- **Time zone:** NZST (UTC+12), NZDT (UTC+13) in summer
- **Calling code:** +64 3
- **Airports:** Dunedin Airport (DUD), at Momona southwest of the city
- **Power:** 230V, type I plug
- **Emergency:** 111

## Interesting facts

- 8 percent. Guinness gave the title to a Welsh street in 2019 and returned it in 2020.
- Taiaroa Head, at the tip of the Otago Peninsula, holds the only mainland breeding colony of royal albatross anywhere in the world.
- The city was founded in 1848 by settlers of the Free Church of Scotland. Dunedin anglicises Dùn Èideann, the Gaelic name for Edinburgh.
- The University of Otago opened in 1869 and is New Zealand's oldest university. Roughly one Dunedin resident in six is a tertiary student.
- Dunedin was named a UNESCO City of Literature in 2014, the first New Zealand city admitted to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.

## Watch

[Best of Dunedin](https://wimup.com/watch/dunedin.md), 10:21

## Dunedin travel FAQ

### How many days do you need in Dunedin?

Three, or four if you want a day trip. Budget two of them for the Otago Peninsula, which takes longer than the map suggests because the harbourside road is narrow and slow, and one for the centre, where the museums, the railway station and the Warehouse Precinct sit within a twenty-minute walk of each other.

### Do you need a car in Dunedin?

For the city, no. The centre is compact and Orbus covers the suburbs. For the Otago Peninsula, effectively yes: the wildlife sites are spread over 30 km with a thin bus service, so hire a car for at least a day or book a peninsula tour that collects you from town.

### Can you see penguins in Dunedin?

Yes, two species. Yellow-eyed penguins come ashore late in the afternoon and are best seen from the hides at The OPERA reserve or the platform at Sandfly Bay. Little penguins arrive at dusk at Taiaroa Head, where Blue Penguins Pukekura runs an evening viewing. Both are protected: keep well back and never stand between a bird and the sea.

### When is the best time to visit Dunedin?

December to March. Days are long, the sea is swimmable if you are hardy, and the royal albatross chicks are on the nest at Taiaroa Head. Winter is not a write-off: the Midwinter Carnival in June and the Puaka Matariki festival are among the best things the city does, and there are no queues anywhere.

### Is Dunedin walkable?

The centre is. From the Octagon you can reach the railway station, Toitū, the art gallery and the Warehouse Precinct on foot in under fifteen minutes each. Beyond that the city climbs hard, as Baldwin Street demonstrates, so anything in the hill suburbs or out on the peninsula wants a bus or a car.

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## Sources

- [Dunedin tourism board](https://www.dunedinnz.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Watch royal albatross at Taiaroa Head (official site)](https://albatross.org.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Stand in the Dunedin Railway Station booking hall (official site)](https://dunedinrailways.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Work through Toitū Otago Settlers Museum (official site)](https://www.toituosm.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Tour Larnach Castle and its gardens (official site)](https://www.larnachcastle.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Walk down through the sandstone at Tunnel Beach (official site)](https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/otago/places/dunedin-area/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Spend a morning inside Orokonui Ecosanctuary (official site)](https://orokonui.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [See the Pacific gallery at Tūhura Otago Museum (official site)](https://otagomuseum.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Take the guided tour of Olveston (official site)](https://www.olveston.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Shop the Otago Farmers Market at the station (official site)](https://otagofarmersmarket.org.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [The OPERA (Penguin Place) (official site)](https://theopera.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Monarch Wildlife Cruises (official site)](https://www.wildlife.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Blue Penguins Pukekura (official site)](https://www.bluepenguins.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Sandfly Bay (official site)](https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/otago/places/otago-peninsula-area/things-to-do/sandfly-bay-track/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Allans Beach (official site)](https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/otago/places/otago-peninsula-area/things-to-do/allans-beach-walking-track/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Moiety (official site)](https://www.moiety.restaurant/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [No.7 Balmac (official site)](https://www.no7balmac.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Plato (official site)](https://www.platocafe.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Bracken (official site)](https://www.brackenrestaurant.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Vault 21 (official site)](https://vault21.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Vogel St Kitchen (official site)](https://www.vogelstkitchen.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Emerson's Brewery & Taproom (official site)](https://emersons.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Speight's Brewery (official site)](https://www.speights.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Dunedin Public Art Gallery (official site)](https://dunedin.art.museum/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Lan Yuan Dunedin Chinese Garden (official site)](https://www.dunedinchinesegarden.com/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Hocken Collections (official site)](https://www.otago.ac.nz/library/hocken?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Dunedin Street Art Trail (official site)](https://dunedinstreetart.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Dunedin Gasworks Museum (official site)](https://www.gasworksmuseum.org.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [St Clair Hot Salt Water Pool (official site)](https://www.dunedin.govt.nz/community-facilities/swimming-pools/st-clair-pool?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Nugget Point, the Catlins (official site)](https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/otago/places/catlins-coastal-area/things-to-do/nugget-point-tokata-walks/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [The Taieri Gorge train (official site)](https://dunedinrailways.co.nz/taieri-gorge/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Otago Central Rail Trail (official site)](https://otagocentralrailtrail.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Dunedin Airport (official site)](https://www.dunedinairport.co.nz/?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
- [Orbus Dunedin (official site)](https://www.orc.govt.nz/orbus?utm_source=wimup.com&utm_medium=referral)
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