Okia Pyramids & Victory Beach

If you can get past the general inexplicableness of pyramids in Dunedin and have a closer look at them, you’ll discover that they’re actually made of basalt columns — as beautiful and natural as they are alien. These pyramids are your classic volcanic-extrusion-formed pyramids. Not as inexplicable as they may at first seem given that Dunedin is an extinct volcano.

A cave in the little pyramid gives you a close-up look at the columns and a close-up look at the swallows darting in and out of an opening higher up. If you feel daring and energetic, you can climb the little pyramid – it makes for a great photo op. And if you make it down in one piece, there’s a loop walk that takes you through the reserve and out onto Victory Beach.