Please note: 5 Day/4 Night Customised tour is for a minimum group of 4 people 

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This tour option gives you a great opportunity to extend your Central Otago holiday. It could include all of the elements of the 4 day tour, with a 5th day where you can set the agenda.

Take a full day out from cycling the trail to enjoys the pleasures of the region:

Some options could include:

• Get the holiday off to a kick start and include up to 3 wine tours on day 1 after we pick you up from your accommodation in Queenstown. 

• Maybe you could ride the trail over the next 4 days or maybe you could only ride 2 days and include the most senic parts of the trail.

• Why not include a full day or half day 4WD trip to the Oteake Conservation area. An area where few visitors get to explore.

• You could maybe try your luck at gold panning. Mark, one of our drivers is a pro at finding "a bit of colour". Keep what you find and have a bbq lunch by the river.

• Clachanburn is a Garden of National Significance - spend a few hours in the tranquility of a world class garden.

• Maybe a site seeing tour of the Maniototo to take in some of this area has to offer. Including some of the historic settlements of the gold mining era.

• There are 3 local golf courses. Why not play a couple of rounds of golf?

• Is mountain biking your thing? Naseby has nearly 100km of tracks from beginner to advanced.

• Are you keen on fishing. Let us point you in the right direction.

• There are plenty of walks in the area if you feel like a casual stroll up the Spec creek or a descent hike around  the Naseby forest.

• Spend a bit longer at the Maniototo Adventure Park and ride the Goldrush luge.

• Pick up in Queenstown between 8.00 and 8.30am

• Transported in the Off The Rails van to the start of the Rail Trail in Clyde.

• Bikes, helmets, panniers fitted to begin cycling around 10.30am

• We will meet you in Alexandra, to make sure everyone is comfortable, riding well and happy with bikes.

• A couple of hours cycling across the Manuherikia River Bridge No.1, through to Galloway, where you will be met by us for morning "smoko", then back over the Manuherikia Bridge No.2, the longest bridge on the trail.(120m)

• Lunch at the historic Chatto Creek Tavern. We will check in with you here and see how you're all going.

• After lunch, grab Tiger Hill by the tail (at a gradient of 1:50, its hardly a hill!)

• Down hill to Omakau and Lauder. We will meet you at Lauder and bring you to our accommodation in Ranfurly.

• Dinner at Ranfurly Hotel or Waipiata Country Hotel or Wedderburn Tavern

• After breakfast, we will return you to where you finished cycling the day before at Lauder.

• Crossing the Manuherikia River again, over Bridge No.3, through the Poolburn Gorge tunnels (229m and 201m) and onto the 37m high, 108m long Poolburn Viaduct.

• Then down the Raggedy Range to the Ida Valley, with the Ida Burn Dam, which is a natural skating rink in winter.

• A side trip to the Hayes Engineering Works can be made before lunch at Oturehua or the historic Gilchrist's Store.

• After lunch the Rail Trail's other hill takes you up to Rough Ridge and the highest point of the Trail at 618m ASL

• Then it's an easy ride down to Wedderburn and the possibility of afternoon refreshments before the final 13kms into Ranfurly.

• Dinner tonight at The Vulcan Hotel in St Bathans.

This tour option gives you a great opportunity to extend your Central Otago holiday.

It includes all of the elements of the 4 day tour, with a 5th day where you can set the agenda.

Take a full day out from cycling the trail to enjoys the pleasures of the region:

• A full day or half day 4WD trip to the Oteake Conservation area or the Dunstan Trail

• The Maniototo boasts a fine distillery where you can enjoy world-class whisky and gin.

• Clachanburn is a Garden of National Significance - spend a few hours in the tranquility of a world class garden.

• Maybe a site seeing tour of the Maniototo to take in some of this area has to offer.

• 'There's still gold in them thar hills.' You could take a day out gold panning and enjoy a BBQ lunch in peaceful surroundings.

• Why not play a couple of rounds of golf?

• Is mountain biking your thing? Naseby has over 100km of tracks from beginner to advanced.

• What about gravel biking? The latest craze in the biking world. Maniototo hopes to be the gravel biking capital of NZ....watch this space!!

• Are you keen on fishing. Let us point you in the right direction.

• What about a wine tour of the Gibston Valley, Earnscleugh or Bannockburn region?

• Ride from Ranfurly across the Maniototo Plain to Waipiata to sample one (or two) of NZs finest pies.

• Then a pretty run following the Taieri River to Kokonga and Daisybank.

• From Daisybank, through the Tioriti gorge, one of the highlights of the Rail Trail.

• Prices Creek brings you a 32m high Viaduct and a 152m long Tunnel.

• We will meet you at Hyde and bring you home to Ranfurly or backto Waipiata for a rest before heading off to Naseby, where you can try your hand at the ancient Scottish sport of curling before dining at the Royal Hotel, which dates back to the 1860's.

• After breakfast, we will take you back to Hyde to pick up where you left off.

• You'll cycle past the Hyde Railway Station and on to Straw Cutting where 21 people lost their lives in a tragic accident in 1943.

• Then you leave the Taieri Gorge behind as the land broadens into the Strath Taieri plain.

• Look out for cloud formations known as the Taieri Pet over the Rock and Pillar range. 

• You will then be met at the end of the Rail Trail in Middlemarch and taken to the charming cafe for some well-earned refreshments.

• We then transport you back to Ranfurly where you can freshen up before the trip back to Queenstown, or if you prefer, we can organise for you to get to Dunedin.