The following pages describe a 4-week cycling tour of the South Island of New Zealand that I did on my Bike Friday Air Glide in February and March, 2009. For a day-by-day account you can start here or use the calendar below for individual days. If you just want to see a selection of the photos I took, you can find them here, or a slideshow here.

Sun	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
February
					13 Day 0	14 Day 1
15 Day 2	16 Day 3	17 Day 4	18 Day 5	19 Day 6	20 Day 7	21 Day 8
22 Day 9	23 Day 10	24 Day 11	25 Day 12	26 Day 13	27 Day 14	28 Day 15
March
1 Day 16	2 Day 17	3 Day 18	4 Day 19	5 Day 20	6 Day 21	7 Day 22
8 Day 23	9 Day 24	10 Day 25

My route started in Christchurch and toured in a clockwise direction the northern two thirds of the South Island. In planning the route, both in advance and on the fly, the Pedallers' Paradise guide book by Nigel Rushton was an invaluable source. I also used Lonely Planet's Cycling New Zealand (now out of print) and various web resources in the planning stages.

The detailed path I took is shown on this Google map (or this version with associated photos). This is the actual track downloaded from my Magellan Meridian GPS, processed with GPSBabel and GPS Visualizer. You can enlarge the map to see the details of the route. This GPX file of the track might be useful for plotting in other mapping programs.