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The South Island's Top 15
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Here's your chance to balance virtue and vice, all with a background of some of NZ's
most starkly beautiful landscapes. Take to two wheels to negotiate the easygoing Otago
Central Rail Trail (
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, cycling into heritage South Island towns such as Clyde
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and Naseby (
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. Tuck into well-earned beers in laid-back country
pubs, or linger for a classy lunch in the vineyard restaurants of Bannockburn. Other foodie
diversions include Cromwell's weekly farmers market, and the summer stone-fruit harvest
of the country's best orchards.