How do you do the best New Zealand mountain passes and biking roads in 8 days? Use this Itinerary! The South Island of New Zealand provides some of the greatest motorcycling roads in the world, and in eight days this itinerary takes you to many of them. Ride our legendary roller-coaster roads with spell-binding scenery all around you - all day, every day. This is 'Middle Earth'', and South Pacific Motorcycle Tours will show you the way.
As you ride along, cascading waterfalls plunge into ice-fresh rivers, gleaming mirror-lakes show off their majestic snow-capped mountain neighbours, and jurassic rain-forests blend with ancient ice-glaciers. No-where else in the world can you see so much in such a short amount of time. Ride all those legendary mountain passes you've heard about including the Lindis and Arthurs Pass, plus The Catlins, Milford Highway, the isolated wild West Coast with it's jurassic-style rainforests and towering glaciers, and New Zealand's highest tar sealed road that winds up into the clouds.
Check out Motorcycle Mecca and home of Burt Munro's Fastest Indian, and Queenstown for riding to all those Lord of the Rings and Hobbit locations, doing all those action-packed activities.
If you only have a week to spare this is The Ride for you.
You'll be travelling between 250 and 350kms daily and over 2500 kms in total.
Please note there is an alternative, longer route available taking the dedicated rider from Lake Tekapo to Invercargill via Cromwell instead of Dunedin. This route will take you over the legendary Lindis Pass, then head south via the isolated back roads of Central Otago in order to ride the stunning Catlins Coast. Both routes will be provided when you book.