How do you do the best New Zealand mountain passes and driving roads in 8 Days? Book this Tour! The South Island of New Zealand provides some of the most scenic roads in the world, and in eight days we will guide you along most of them. Drive New Zealand's legendary roller-coaster roads with spell-binding scenery all around you every day. This is 'Middle Earth'', and South Pacific Sports Car Tours will show you the way.
Cascading waterfalls plunge into ice-fresh rivers, gleaming mirror-lakes show off their majestic snow-capped mountain neighbours, and jurassic rain-forests blend with ancient ice-glaciers. No-where else in the world can you see so much in such a short amount of time. Drive all those legendary mountain passes you've heard about plus The Catlins, Milford Highway, the isolated wild West Coast road with it's jurassic-style rainforests and towering glaciers, and New Zealand's highest tar sealed roads that winds up into the clouds.
You'll be driving the fabulous and relatively unchartered Southern Scenic route to The Catlins 'Te Akau Tai Toka' with its waterfalls, caves, and Curio Bay where a 170 million year old petrified forest is visible on the beach at low tide. Next up is the breathtaking Fiordland National Park where there's time to ride into Milford Sound itself to discover 'The Eighth Wonder of the World'. Next up, Queenstown for all those Lord of the Rings and Hobbit locations, doing all those action-packed activities you've always wanted to try!
If you only have a week to spare this is The Trip you don't want to miss.
You'll be travelling between 250 and 350kms daily, approximately 2800km total.