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Otago Rail Trail Five days/ 4 Nights Tour

  • Tour starts Christchurch or Queenstown
  • Tour finishes Christchurch or Dunedin
  • Quality comfort style rental bicycle and helmet
  • Womans and mens frame bicycles available
  • All breakfasts and dinners
  • Departures at the best time of year to do the trail
  • Rail Trail souvenir passport included
  • Comfortable quiet lodges and Bed and Breakfasts
  • Naseby Curling and Hayes Engineering
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Day 1 Ride one of the Mackenzie basins hydro canals road to stretch your legs and work up an appetite for dinner at Clyde's Old Post Cafe. Our accomodation is at Dunstan House www.dunstanhouse.co.nz

Day 2 We begin our ride on the Millenium Trail along the bank of the Clutha river. Time for coffee at Clyde before the gentle downhill back to Alexandra and on to Chatto Creek for lunch. The support van will be waiting if you need it. We stay in Ophir, a quiet town full of history, and check out the oldest working Post Office in NZ . Accommodation and dining at Blacks Hotel.

Day 3 Tunnels, bridges and great scenery await you in the Poolburn Gorge, followed by the flat plains of the Ida Valley. we finish at Wedderburn and transfer to Naseby for the night where curling is on the agenda. We stay at Naseby Trail Lodge

Day 4 Today its all downhill, plenty of time to see the art deco architecture of Ranfurly, before rolling on through another tunnel, across more bridges to Hyde Central Hotel for the night.

Day 5 Middlemarch is the end of the line these days both for the Taieri gorge train or the rail trail . Homeward bound, we have the choice of the optional scenic train journey finishing in Dunedin, or returning directly to Christchurch

Departure Dates 2012 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it : , or catch the Autumn Colours with our 11th April or 18th April tours

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NZ$1045 each twin/double for group of 10 with all inclusions
NZ$1110 each twin/double for group of 8 with all inclusions
NZ$1175 each twin/double for group of 6 with all inclusions
Single Supplement available
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