"If you only have a couple of weeks, this is the one. Riding over New Zealand's glorious Southern Alps and through the Rainforests and around Lord of the Rings country by motorcycle will simply blow your mind" - Mike (Owner, SPMT)
This tour offers unsurpassed motorcycling around New Zealand's South Island, a motorcyclist's heaven. The package includes the best mountain passes and four National Parks and the unspoilt natural scenery is nothing short of breathtaking. Led by one of our professional guides you'll be riding between 9am and 4pm each day with plenty of time for discovering our wonderful food, wine and craft beers, and getting up close to our unique plants and animals including penguins, albatross, seals, kiwi, and our pesky Kea parrots! Not forgetting immersing yourself daily in The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit country!
This tour package also includes some great features including:-
- 12 full days riding on your chosen motorcycle
- 13 nights hotel and breakfast accommodation
- South Pacific's unique Maori Welcome Experience
- Thrilling Jet-boat ride
- Guided Kiwi Tour
- Nature Boat Cruise & Picnic on Milford Sound
Ride over our amazing Southern Alps to the Fiords, through rainforests and mountain passes via the best motorcycling roads in the world. Then take one of the world's most scenic ferry crossings through the Marlborough Sounds to the geo-thermal land of Maori Legend. Jet-boat our pristine rivers, cruise the majestic fiords, visit our rare Kiwi and immerse yourself in Maori culture.
This tour package includes 13 nights room and breakfast hotel lodgings, and a two-night stopovers in Fiordland National Park and Queenstown. Our Premier lodgings are hand-picked for their facilities, uniqueness and location. Enjoy your own private room with bathroom, towels and toiletries, tea and coffee making facilities, many with a balcony or deck.
We ride over the Southern Alps to Mount Cook and the beautiful Southern Lakes before heading West to the whitestone townscape of Oamaru, containing some of the best-preserved heritage buildings in NZ, the awesome Steam Punk Museum and a sanctuary for our Little Blue Penguins. At Dunedin and the Otago Peninsula discover the world's only land-based Royal Albatross Colony - and an awesome brew-house! The southern scenic route to Invercargill is nothing short of breathtaking, and your reward today is a visit to see Burt Munro's 'World's Fastest Indian'. Think it can't get any better? Think again! The legendary Milford Road in Fiordland National Park awaits, topped off only by a magical boat cruise on Milford Sound itself.
Next on the agenda is Queenstown, 'Adventure Capital of the Southern Hemisphere', where the adrenalin adventure never ends, and the riding in this area is indescribably superb. Bungy jumping, white water rafting, jet-boating, or a steam-boat ride to an historic sheep farm, it's all here waiting for you. And so are the wineries, the old historic gold-mining villages, and the peaceful vistas to refuel your thirst for life. The awe-inspiring ride over New Zealand's highest tar-sealed road will literally have you in heaven as you snake your way down to glistening lakes and through the Rainforest with its Jurassic-style trees and ferns. Why not take a helicopter ride and get up real close to Mount Cook and land on Fox or Franz Josef Glacier?
The legendary west coast scenic ride along-side the Tasman Sea is mind-blowing, not only for the vistas, but also for the empty road that winds, sweeps and bends for mile upon mile. Time to explore the driftwood beaches, unique pancake formations and mighty blow-holes and caves of this truly unique, unspoilt region, with it's huge ferns, punga, nikau palms and towering rata, and flightless weka.
Riding over the alps once more results in a fabulous ride over the Lewis pass. A well-earned hot soak or massage in thermal open-air hot Pools nestled in a sleepy alpine village is the only thing that may help bring you back down to earth.