A recent article in the Manawatu Standard:
A daunting bike ride from Cape Reinga to Bluff has become all the rage within the cycling fraternity, rather like the Camino de Santiago walking pilgrimage across Spain.
New Zealand's wheeled version is Tour Aotearoa, described as a 3000-kilometre bike-packing odyssey, a third of it ridden on gravel, a third off-road and a third on-road.