Explore New Zealand with Kiwi Rally

Kiwi Rally has been exploring the best scenery and trails New Zealand has to offer for over 40 years. They’re now offering eight-day adventure tours.

“Riding our DR650 dirt bikes, we’ll show you abandoned historic townships still standing, coal and gold mines full of rich history and tell you stories about the people who lived there,” says Shane McKay, director and guide at Kiwi Rally. “We’ll ride there up old mine trails and tunnels, crossing rivers, deep into the bush through mud and over mountains to the sea. We’ll take back tracks and short cuts that will catch your imagination and take your breath away. Normal just doesn’t cut it with us.”

“Each night, we’ll camp out under the stars and dine on local fresh produce including wild venison shot by your guide, local Salmon smoked on red wine infused in cedar, BBQ crayfish, fresh baked bread made daily, to name a few, all cooked for you at camp, matched with some of Marlborough’s finest wines and what we call some of the best local beer in the world,” adds McKay.

Kiwi Rally is about real people and real places, local knowledge to get you there and a local bloke to lead the way.

“When you go on holiday, you want bang for buck, so you hit the information centres and holiday shops only to find they know bugger all – you’d have been better off going to the pub and getting the inside knowledge from a local,” says McKay. “That’s where Kiwi Rally will knock ya socks off, showing you the best of New Zealand in eight days.

Growing up on the west coast of the south island with a pack full of possum traps, a bow and arrow, bare feet and a push bike, McKay learnt all about the bush – including the direction to go when lost and what he could eat to stay alive.       

“Nowadays we use GPS and take food along – we’re a bit more civilised,” McKay chuckles. “We can share the old bush secrets along the way, though. We’ll give you more of the real New Zealand-middle earth – Aotearoa – than you can handle. After spending ten years in adventure tourism in New Zealand, we know this is gonna squeal your wheels. That’s what we Kiwis call sweet as, bro!”

For more information, visit: www.kiwirally.com