City Bike Tour - Christchurch
Original Christchurch Bike Tour
On the Original Christchurch Bike Tour you will experience the best of Christchurch – the history, the beautiful gardens and the new CBD developments. A friendly and entertaining local guide will lead you at a leisurely pace. A personalised experience with plenty of time to stop and ask questions, take photos and enjoy the views. No hills, limited traffic as tour is mostly on cycle pathways.
Bike Tour Highlights:
Duration – two hours (10am & 2pm departures) Bookings Essential
On the Original Christchurch Bike Tour you will experience the best of Christchurch – the history, the beautiful gardens and the new CBD developments. A friendly and entertaining local guide will lead you at a leisurely pace. A personalised experience with plenty of time to stop and ask questions, take photos and enjoy the views. No hills, limited traffic as tour is mostly on cycle pathways.
Bike Tour Highlights:
- Your tour starts at the historic Antigua Boatsheds on the River Avon
- Capture fabulous views of the Botanic Gardens
- Take a peek at the South Island's Oldest Independent School, Christ’s College
- Pedal through the picturesque Hagley Park on traffic free cycle-ways
- Enjoy hearing a Scottish tale or two at the lovely homestead of Riccarton House (option of a 10-minute walk in the last piece of native bush land along the Canterbury Plains)
- Have a look inside Canterbury's oldest building, the historic Deans Cottage
- Stroll through beautiful virgin New Zealand bush with rare Kahikatea trees at Riccarton Bush
- Admire the beautiful Mona Vale estate with its sculptured gardens (including fern house and rose gardens)
- View the CBD Rebuild and to get an appreciation of a city in the rebuild process
- Avon River, runs through the city
- Enjoy NZ’s most picturesque street - New Regent Street
- Cathedral Square, the center of the city where Christchurch Cathedral is
- Have a look inside the Transitional Cardboard Cathedral (Shigeru Ban’s Emergency Architecture)
- Check out the Re:START Shipping Container Mall – our very own Pop Up City
Duration – two hours (10am & 2pm departures) Bookings Essential