Your ride starts from Hanmer Springs, enjoy biking the best parts of the high country of Molesworth Station, Maruia and Awatere Valley. Tour includes all meals and accommodation, one night in fabulous high country farm stay complex.
Hanmer Springs
9am
You might like to bring a Gel seat cover for added comfort.
If you are bringing your own mountain bikes, thick tyres are recommended and shock absorbers are not essential but will make the trip more comfortable. Make sure it is in good condition and has been recently serviced and you have a spare inner tube and repair gear with you. We can arrange bike hire for you.
Full suspension bikes $440, E-Bikes $666
Grade 1 – 3
You will need a moderate level of fitness with some off road experience biking on shingle surfaces.
9am pick up from Hanmer Springs in North Canterbury, enjoy the drive up the Western side of Molesworth Station, commence your ride in magnificent high-country scenery, biking from Lake Tennyson to Hanmer. Arriving back in the alpine village with time for a soak in the thermal hot pools before a group dinner in the village tonight.
INCLUSIONS morning tea, lunch, dinner, and accommodation.
Departing Hanmer Springs in your support vehicle we drive westward to the Lewis Pass saddle to start your ride on the Maruia trail an off road forty km ride to Murchison through native bush and farmland. A good variety of safe biking today with overnight accommodation in Blenheim, enjoy a riverside dining experience tonight.
INCLUSIONS morning tea, lunch, dinner and accommodation.
Departing at 8.30am to drive to the start of your ride, 20kms south of Blenheim in the Awatere Valley. Bike in sections with breaks during the morning, stopping to enjoy a homestead farm visit for lunch on a generational farm. Enjoy a ride further up the valley to our overnight accommodation at one of NZ’s most remote stations, set in the mountains of the upper Awatere Valley arriving about 5.00pm. Relax in quality accommodation and enjoy excellent cuisine tonight.
INCLUSIONS Breakfast, morning tea, lunch and dinner and accommodation.
After a farm style breakfast enjoy the picturesque cycle ride to the start of Molesworth Station for morning tea. We cycle on the flatter sections on the station, enjoying a picnic lunch in the high country, ride along the Acheron River reaching Hanmer Springs approximately 5.30pm.
INCLUSIONS Breakfast, morning tea, lunch.
We thoroughly enjoyed our time doing your South Island tour and I am writing to congratulate you on a well organized tour with professional people and excellent accommodation along the way. Not to mention your
home cooking!!!
We thoroughly enjoyed the whole trip. Chris was a fantastic driver/ host/guide. Nothing was too much trouble for him and he was so helpful and informative. We all enjoyed his company immensely. The meals and accommodation were fabulous.
We thoroughly enjoyed the variety of scenery and terrain that we cycled through. Obviously it was disappointing to have poor weather when going through the Molesworth station but we were able to see it in a different perspective and we enjoyed what we saw.
A big thank you to both you and Geoff. The cycling was in the main excellent, the accommodation and food were both superb. Our group of friends, all with a farming background got to enjoy the Marlborough high country in brilliant weather – just reinforced to us what a special part of NZ is the Awatere Valley and Molesworth.
When we signed on we knew that we would have long periods riding in your bus, the second day especially proved so but this was expected. We have returned home to the North Island with brilliant memories of our time with you, and amongst us all we captured some quite stunning photos.
Must mention Geoff’s driving- it was first rate. So all in all, a most successful four days with South Island Tours
The trip was really great ,most enjoyable , riding times and distance all about OK , Fantastic meals and accommodation all great .
Parts of NZ I had never been too and probably never go again . Great knowledge by Geoff of the area we were going through .
Thank you both for such a memorable experience we Rotarians had on our Molesworth Tour. The scenery is so spectacular, the itinerary is faultless, all of the accommodation was extremely clean and comfortable, which, together with the with the fantastic choice of meals has made this trip so memorable.
