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Otago Rail Trail

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Otago Rail Trail Five days/ 4 Nights Tour 

  • Tour starts Christchurch or Queenstown
  • Tour finishes Christchurch or Dunedin
  • Quality rental bicycle and helmet
  • 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  
Day 1 Ride the hydro canal road to stretch your leg and work up an appetite for dinner at Clyde's Old Post Cafe.
Our accomodation is at Alexandra.

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 dine at the original homestead in this area, now the Omakau Commercial 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.

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 2011  5th January, 2nd March, 7th April, 14th April, 29th April (Autumn Colours)

NZ$900 each twin/double for group of 10 with all inclusions
NZ$1000 each twin/double for group of 8 with all inclusions
NZ$1150 each twin/double for group of 6 with all inclusions
Single Supplement available
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