Depart Christchurch
Return Christchurch
This tour is designed for keen riders who want to pack everything in and not miss a beat.
Start with easy sweeps and bends across the Canterbury plains towards the Southern Alps, showcasing mighty Aoraki Mount Cook (Could Piercer). Meander beside beautiful lakes, unspoilt coastline and through ancient podocarp forests. Explore New Zealand's finest motorcycle museums and discover the wonders of Fiordland National Park and Milford Sound. Tick off some of the best motorcycling roads in the world as you explore Queenstown, then westward into luxuriant rainforests towered by glacier-topped mountains glaciers and spectacular blowholes. One of the world's most scenic ferry crossings takes you across the Cook Straight to another world of volcanos, geysers, boiling mud and steaming craters. Discover fabulous beaches and stunning rides around the North Islands awesome peninsulas to Auckland, City of Sails. Explore mysterious glow-worm caves before embarking on the famous Forgotten World Highway - if you're adventurous enough! Then from the volcanic plateaus of protected national parks, head south through the vineyards of the Marlborough Sounds before simply stunning riding beside the Pacific Ocean with its whales, seals, and tasty crayfish. Want 22 days of full on 5 Star riding? This is it!
If you can stretch to 24 or 25 days, talk to us about the extra 2 or 3 days of riding to get right to the northern tip of the north island and Bay of Islands, magical!
You'll be travelling around 6000 kms in total. (+4 optional non-riding days).