The Old Ghost Road - Day 1
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We made it! 2 days of mountain biking - 85km of singletrack - 2500m of climbing and descending. The Old Ghost Road is a trail crossing the wilderness of New Zealand's west coast. It was a massiveLue lisää
We made it! 2 days of mountain biking - 85km of singletrack - 2500m of climbing and descending. The Old Ghost Road is a trail crossing the wilderness of New Zealand's west coast. It was a massiveLue lisää
After a sleepless night we held our nerve and waited for the weather to pass to start the big second day. Prayers were answered and in a matter of seconds the valley went from white out to cloudsLue lisää
After the Old Ghost Road we headed down the West Coast headed eventually for Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers.
The weather felt very Scottish. Had a short stop to check out the Pancake Rocks andLue lisää
Upon inspecting the weather forecast we decided we'd had enough of the rain and made an excellent decision to abandon our plan of heading down the West Coast to the glaciers and Queenstown and set offLue lisää
Spent the day discovering the beautiful yet slightly eerie city of Christchurch.
We visited Quake City, a fascinating and moving museum documenting the history of the 2010 and 2011 CanterburyLue lisää
After a couple of days in the Christchurch adventure park and lots of vertical descent racked up on the bikes we headed off in search of the Southern Lakes. En route we passed Lake Tekapo with it'sLue lisää
We made it! This evening we arrived in Queenstown after a couple of weeks of epic journeying. This will be our base for the next couple of weeks as we explore the south and sample all the local bikingLue lisää
Milford Sound, actually a Fjord carved by a glacier is an incredible sight to behold! We enjoyed a peaceful two hour evening cruise through the fjord and were blown away by the jagged mountains, blueLue lisää