Christchurch Gondola

A cable car up the side of an extinct volcano in the Port Hills, to the summit station 500 m above sea level. From the top you get a 360-degree view across Christchurch, the Canterbury Plains and the Southern Alps on one side, and Lyttelton Harbour and Banks Peninsula on the other.

The summit building has a café and restaurant, and walking and mountain-biking tracks lead along the crater rim. You can walk up or down the Bridle Path, the route the early settlers took from Lyttelton.