Arrowtown, New Zealand
A 2 wheeled adventure
We hired some mountain bikes for an afternoon in Arrowtown (just outside Queenstown). We'd read about a 4WD track that goes to a place called Macetown which is a ghost Gold Town and naively thought we'd give it a go. What a (good) mistake, it was incredibly hard, up ridiculous dirt tracks, over about 20 river crossings (over the same river!) and some hairy descents on the way back, it was so brutal (at least to someone very sheltered of o...