Willowbank Wildlife Reserve

Willowbank is a great wildlife reserve featuring exotic animals such as wallabies, otters, ostriches, lemurs, gibbons and indigenous creatures alongside a variety of domestic animals (check out the weird-looking Kune Kune pig). They have an extensive selection of native wildlife, including the rare tuatara, and a large nocturnal kiwi house where visitors can see kiwis up close and not behind glass. The reserve also has a good restaurant and an evening Māori Cultural show.