We finished our five day bicycle ride with a cheer. A very tiny town of Middlemarch marked the end of the bike trail, and from there it is a working railroad line again.
A rather famous scenic railroad, the Taieri Gorge Railway, travels the 58 kilometers from nearby Pukerangi to Dunedin. Our bicycle company booked us on great window seats to see the canyon on the way to Dunedin, the last city we will see in New Zealand.
This railway, the oldest in New Zealand traveled down a beautiful river gorge with the same kind of mountain rock that was used in the filming of The Hobbitt. It was a fun ride.
Side note: traffic in the inland countryside of NZ was mostly easy, except for the morning commute which stopped all two cars on the road. Here’s the cause:
