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TOURENFAHRER on tour: Adventure New Zealand

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 | Thomas Ritt / Holger Homann | Pacific | 3 Comments

Day 15: Around the Coromandel to Auckland

Highlight of this tour's last riding day: the stunning Coromandel Peninsula. An outstanding road, great views, and, to top it all off, New Zealand's best Fish&Chips for lunch. What better way to end an amazing tour?

Tom and Sabine on Coromandel

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An impressive Kauri tree...

...and our dinner right on top of Auckland!

And Timo found an Edelweiss

Day 14: Waitomo Caves to Thames

Today we drove to the west shore, stopped at the Marokopa waterfall and continued on a gravel road to Raglan, the surfer spot in New Zealand. Later we were hunt by a thunderstorm and we flew thru the landscape with strong winds and gusts. We made it finally to Thames without a single drop of rain. We parked the motorcycles in front of the hotel and it started to rain. THAT is timing )

Day 13: Wanganui to Waitomo Caves

Mt. Taranaki as we should have seen it. But we haven't.

Better weather along the Forgotten World Highway. Those 140 kms of curves will never be forgotten.

Gerd

Timo

Raoul

without words

Exiting the famous Waitomo Glowworm Caves

Day 12: Rotorua to Wanganui

boot beer time!!!

Day 11: Napier to Rotorua

Today we target 345km in total with a gravel section of about 100km through the isolated Te-Urewa (formerly a national park now registered as a personhood) rainforest...just nature, small roads and us.

But see yourself...

Marcus in action

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First North island impressions - filmed/cut by Timo

at Waikaremoana lake

Happy faces! What a great day!!

Lots of curves today, time to take pictures only when we stopped...

... for coffee...

Day 10: Wellington to Napier

... in Martinborough...

... and lunch in Pongaroa.

After dinner (in Napier) we celebrated Manuela's birthday with cheesecake from Yummy Mummy's

Days 6, 7 & 8: via Punakaiki and Motueka to Wellington

Due to limited internet access it took a little while to update the blog. Sorry...

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South Island impressions - filmed by Timo
Thank you very much!

Hokitika Gorge

There must be some heavy people in New Zealand...

Kea at Arthur's Pass

Keas are real superstars!

..and then again the Jurassic park feeling

Our dinner at Punakaiki..romantic

Timo in action

The obligatory sheep (we had to put one here

In the morning we visited the pancake rocks...

Susanne and Sabine

Manuela and Jörg at Motueka beach

An araucaria in the background. Also called "monkey puzzle trees"

Day 05: Cromwell to Fox Glacier

With pleasent weather we started towards the West Coast...here at Lake Hawea

Our morning coffee stop - normally a tourist hotspot - we were so lucky, nearly no people!

Jörg presenting (actually we made him doing so the New Zealand T shirt which he got upfront the tour from his daughter

The forest gets more and more dense and the roads more twisty

Gerd

Timo on our rain forest walk

Beaches at the West Coast, just wild and beautiful

What this crowd was looking for...?

Rest day in Cromwell: Adventure is calling!

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The infamous Nevis Road features 25 river crossings. Fun? You bet!

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...and various styles to cross them

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..and after )

Well-deserved ice cream in Queenstown

Day 3: Danseys Pass to Cromwell

That's it!

Gilchrist store, open since 1902!

At the Blue Lake in St. Bathans...in the middle of nowhere...again!

Tom arriving "downtown"

Hear Hear!

take your dirty boots off!!!

riding impressions...

..and Ralf found a General Store in the middle of nowhere

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Discover New Zealand!

Day 2: Omarama to Danseys Pass

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Let's go!

Today's day is all about riding...on back country and gravel roads

Marcus approaching..

Jörg and Manuela

Gerd coming around the corner

Jörg and Manuela crossing the ford

Gerd in action

Who made this bike dirty??

Our target for this morning: The Hakataramea pass

Sabine, our brave girl!

Martin

This landscape...just amazing! Our approach to Danseys pass in the afternoon

After a great day relaxing at our nice old hotel in the middle of nowhere!

...built in the 19th century, this hotel has flair!

Day 1: Christchurch to Omarama

Gleich außerhalb von Christchurch lauert dieser herrliche Aussichtspunkt

Schöner Ort zum Mittagessen

Die historische Kirche zum guten Hirten, die Motorräder, der türkisblaue See Lake Tekapo und im Hiintergrund die Südlichen Alpen: Neuseeland lässt sich nicht lumpen!