Auckland
Auckland
Explore the best of the North Island with this self-guided 7 Day North Island Motorbike Tour, riding through some of New Zealand’s most exhilarating roads and terrain.
We start your tour off on the East Coast of the North Island, moving from Auckland towards the Motorcycling nirvana that is the Thames-Coromandel highway, one of the top-rated motorcycle rides in the world. The tour continues in the same vein traversing through the wide sweeping forestry roads of the Kaimai Ranges, spectacular lake side roads of the Blue Lakes District – Rotorua and the scenic coastal roads of the East cape and West coast. Finishing the tour riding through rolling King Country roads back to Auckland.
At a glance
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2515 km
Note: The waypoints do not reflect the single itinerary steps.
Day 1 : Auckland to Rotorua
2h 51min
Starting in Auckland the tour continues in the same vein traversing through the wide sweeping forestry roads of the Kaimai Ranges, spectacular lake side roads of the Blue Lakes District – Rotorua (SH 27).
228 km
Day 2 : Rotorua to Gisborne
3h 44min
via Opotiki, SH 2
273 km
Day 3 : Gisborne to Taupo
4h 27min
via Napier, SH 2
328 km
Day 4 : Taupo to Wellington
5h 57min
via Palmerston North, SH 1 & 2
429km
Day 5 : Wellington to New Plymouth
4h 58min
via Mt Taranaki, SH 3 & 45
386 km
Day 6 : New Plymouth to Tauranga
4h 8min
via Cambridge, SH 3,1 & 29
311 km
Day 7 : Tauranga to Auckland
2h 42min
Finally, the roads SH 2 & 1 will lead you from Tauranga back to the starting point of your 7 Day North Island Tour: Auckland.
203 km