18-Day New Zealand Motorcycle Tour: North & South

Your New Zealand motorcycle tour begins with departure from your chosen airport toward Auckland. The flight crosses the International Date Line, so you're scheduled to arrive in New Zealand two days later – the first step of your big adventure.

Due to the time difference, you technically spend this day in flight. On this guided New Zealand motorcycle tour you can optionally schedule a stopover in Dubai or Asia to extend the trip your own way.

Arriving in Auckland, the City of Sails, you reach the starting point of your Harley-Davidson New Zealand motorcycle tour. After the transfer to your hotel there's time to relax before the tour briefing with your guide in the evening.

After picking up your Harley-Davidson from our rental partner, your on-road New Zealand motorcycle tour begins along the scenic Pacific coast to the Coromandel Peninsula. Overnight in a beachside lodge in Whitianga.

A short walk brings you to Cathedral Cove, before this Rotorua Maori culture motorcycle tour continues: thermal fields, a Maori village, and a traditional hangi feast await you in Rotorua this evening.

Via Lake Taupo and the Hawke's Bay wine region, this 18-day New Zealand motorcycle tour continues to Napier, whose Art Deco center was completely rebuilt after the 1931 earthquake.

This Wellington Cook Strait motorcycle tour takes you through the winding Rimutaka mountain region into New Zealand's capital. From Mount Victoria you enjoy a wonderful view over the "Windy City" right on the Cook Strait.

By ferry you cross the Cook Strait to the South Island, leaving the first part of your Coromandel Peninsula and North Island motorcycle tour behind you. After the crossing you follow the coast road to reach Nelson.

This Abel Tasman National Park motorcycle tour gives you a free day today: by boat you glide through clear water past golden beaches before returning to Nelson in the afternoon.

Through the Motueka Valley and the Buller Gorge you reach the subtropical West Coast. This 18-day New Zealand motorcycle tour takes you to the bizarre limestone formations of the Pancake Rocks near Punakaiki.

Via the historic gold-mining areas and the jade town of Hokitika, this Fox and Franz Josef Glacier motorcycle tour takes you through evergreen rainforest into the glacier region of the Southern Alps.

Via Haast Pass, past Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea, and over the spectacular high-alpine Crown Range route, this Queenstown motorcycle tour takes you into New Zealand's popular adventure hub with its many adrenaline activities.

After a free morning with bungee jumping or jet-boating, this Te Anau Fiordland motorcycle tour takes you to the gateway of Fiordland National Park, where you spend two nights on Lake Te Anau.

Optionally, this Milford Sound motorcycle tour takes you along the Milford Road past Mirror Lakes and through the Homer Tunnel to the fjords of Fiordland National Park, before you return to Te Anau in the afternoon.

Through the inland basin landscape of McKenzie County and the Canterbury Plains you reach Twizel, with a magnificent view of the glacier world of Mt. Cook – another highlight of your New Zealand motorcycle tour.

Along the turquoise Lake Pukaki and the remote Lake Tekapo, this Christchurch leg of your New Zealand motorcycle tour brings you to your final riding day. In the afternoon you return your motorcycle and round off the day with a farewell dinner together.

The morning is still yours to enjoy freely, before the transfer to Christchurch airport and the flight home to Europe brings your North and South Island New Zealand motorcycle tour to a close.

You arrive back at your departure point in the morning. Your New Zealand motorcycle tour ends here, but the memories of this guided motorcycle tour across the North and South Island and all its stages will stay with you for a long time.