Aotearoa | New Zealand
This is my second post about The Old Ghost Road, which includes some ride and transport details. The first post, which is about preparing and packing for the ride, is here. A recap summary of the ride: The Old Ghost Road is an 85 km...
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So I am planning to ride a mountain bike along the evocatively entitled Old Ghost Road. It runs from the now-defunct gold mining town called Lyell - in the upper part of the South Island - across the mountains to the West Coast...
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The Central Otago Rail Trail is New Zealand's best known cycle trail. Built in 1994 on a decommissioned railway from Dunedin to Clyde it traverses the dry, grassy South Island high country; winding it's way through rocky gorges, over high river viaducts and across the sweeping...
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The Forgotten World Highway (Highway 43) is a road and rail line that runs through the hills and backcountry of Taranaki, then into the central plateau of New Zealand's North Island. At the western end is the perfect snowy cone of Mt...
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