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About as adventurous as it gets in New Zealand!
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From the blog, December 2012:
On day 2 we got our first taste of the hills everyone had been warning us about. A terrific time free-wheeling it down to the Rakai Gorge and a bit of huffing and puffing on the way back up. I fear those first fifty pancake flat kilometers out of Christchurch may be the only ones we’ll experience in this country.
After the torturous climbs in Indonesia, these hardly feel demanding. There’s no heat and humidity to contend with and certainly not a constant stream of logging trucks or über-friendly folks on motorbikes attempting conversation as we pedal in pain.
There is indeed much truth in the notion that New Zealand is a pedaller’s paradise. Adventure is there if you want it, but if comfort is more your style, you can easily stick to the main roads hoppingp from one comfortable acoommodation to the next.
Our first taste of advenuture came on the rough ride to Cattle Creek where we got our feet wet more than once as we forded some minor creeks on the way up Hakataramea Pass. The ride over Danseys Pass lead us deep into sheep country and the lush emerald-green grazing grounds of the high country.
Plenty of quiet car-free riding on the Suth Island of NZ.
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Still snow on the mountain tops even in early summer.
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