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Te Anau’s stunning Lake2Lake Cycle Trail is greatest loved on an e-bike, writes Tim Roxborogh.

The assembly level of smugness and guilt (or maybe it is extra like schadenfreude peskily diluted by humility) – I’ve not often felt it greater than atop an e-bike doing the Lake2Lake path between Te Anau and Manapouri.

Against a backdrop of virgin rainforest-draped mountains, on a path that hyperlinks two lakes as placing as any in New Zealand, there I’m: 15kg on the dad-bod facet, 2-year-old daughter Riley perched out the again, and I’m pedalling like I’m Lance Armstrong. Along the best way, we’re passing poor, pitiful souls who’ve resorted to the honourable defeat of pushing their non-electrified bikes. I’d be one of them too.

Only I’m not! And e-bikes have now been round so lengthy I can not hold calling them the long run. Plus, they make doing one thing just like the 28-kilometre one-way trip between the dual lakes in Fiordland such a stressless pleasure. It’s nonetheless nicely and actually train, nevertheless it means you possibly can go up hills with out popping a hernia. I might even shorten that sentence: it means you possibly can go up hills.

Speaking of which, the Lake2Lake Trail has a handful of hill climbs that, whereas in the end pretty brief, are nonetheless steep sufficient to dismount all however the extra severe of cyclists. Unless, of course, you are using an e-bike.

I’m satisfied New Zealanders are one way or the other nonetheless succesful of underestimating Fiordland. Describing our largest nationwide park as “country-sized” is not even hyperbole once you’re speaking about a spot a full 17 occasions greater than Singapore.

Fiordland’s 12,607sq km has every part from near-impenetrable rainforest, to glaciers, to snowy peaks, to thundering waterfalls, to postcard-perfect fiords and sounds, to some of this nation’s most treasured wildlife. There are lakeside seashores, caves with glow worms, and lodging of a real worldwide normal. However intensive your adventures right here, likelihood is you may have scratched little greater than the floor.

Fitted out with all of the gear at Wild Rides within the centre of Te Anau, you may be lakeside in lower than a minute. And from there, it is only a case of following the path south till you are feeling like turning again.

At 334sq km, Lake Te Anau is New Zealand’s second-largest after Taupō (616sq km). The truth the takahē was considered extinct for roughly 50 years till being rediscovered in 1948 within the Murchison Mountains on Te Anau’s western shores tells you a lot of what you want to find out about this space.

Seventy-four years on and whereas the takahē inhabitants stays threatened, it’s slowly rising – one thing you possibly can be taught extra about on the Te Anau Bird Sanctuary close to the northern finish of the Lake2Lake path. Back on the bikes, as you head south, Lake Te Anau offers technique to the clear waters of the Waiau River with the path working facet by facet.

It’s this part that has that handful of hill climbs, however press on with the data that 12km south of Te Anau is an important cease at a spot known as Rainbow Reach. Here you possibly can park up and do half of the Kepler Track – one of New Zealand’s 10 official Great Walks. With the total hike comprising 60km and taking three to 4 days, the small sampling of the Kepler you may get from crossing the spectacular swing bridge over the Waiau River and into the forest will go away you in little doubt as to why it is a Great Walk.

So with lots of time allowed, when you make your method again to the swing bridge, it is on to Manapouri and a lake so picturesque it is continuously touted as New Zealand’s most lovely. 142sq km, the lake is house to at least 33 islands, 22 of that are lined in dense native forest, and none of which is inhabited by people.

There’s an nearly subtropical really feel with all of the vegetation and white seashores, regardless of a latitude of 45 levels. And because the launchpad to the famed Doubtful Sound, it is also the place I checked out these 33 islands and determined that subsequent time we might need to ditch the e-bikes for kayaks. Preferably of the “e” selection too.

Tim Roxborogh hosts Newstalk ZB’s Weekend Collective each Saturday and Sunday, 3pm-6pm.

For extra journey inspiration, go to newzealand.com/nz.

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