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    Swiss couple reaching NZ after one year trip through Central Asia and India

    Hey everyone

    We are a couple from Switzerland, who are riding our two Yamaha XT660 (I ride an R version and my boyfriend the Ténéré) towards New Zealand at the moment. At the moment we are in Indiaand will ship our bikes by the end of the year to your beautiful country. On the 21st of January we will fly into Auckland and have around 3 month to travel around before we head to Australia.

    It would be great to catch up with some of you guys while we are on the road and we might have one or two questions about some good offroad tracks

    In case you would like to check out what we did so far you can do so here:
    www.xtadventures.ch
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    Youtube - we make a video about every country we visited so far (well a little behind now haha)

    Cheers from North India
    Xenia & Tinu


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    Inspirational. How do you fund such a trip .

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    Quote Originally Posted by gsxr View Post
    Inspirational. How do you fund such a trip .
    Thanks with a lot of hard work and not spending a lot of money at home (not going out for dinner, selling things we did not need and so on).

    Now on the trip we try to live as cheap as possible so we camp a lot, maintain our bikes ourselfs and cook ourselfs too we did not earn great money at home. Martin is a carpenter and Im an IT specialist but worked in a travel agency for a change. So its managable without beeing rich

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    Quote Originally Posted by XT Adventures View Post
    Hey everyone

    we might have one or two questions about some good offroad tracks

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    Thanks for the great links Pete! Just signed up for adv forum

    Yeah we plan a one week cleaning session in Mumbai to make sure the bikes look like new.

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    Quote Originally Posted by XT Adventures View Post
    Hey everyone

    We are a couple from Switzerland, who are riding our two Yamaha XT660 (I ride an R version and my boyfriend the Ténéré) towards New Zealand at the moment. At the moment we are in Indiaand will ship our bikes by the end of the year to your beautiful country. On the 21st of January we will fly into Auckland and have around 3 month to travel around before we head to Australia.

    It would be great to catch up with some of you guys while we are on the road and we might have one or two questions about some good offroad tracks

    In case you would like to check out what we did so far you can do so here:
    www.xtadventures.ch
    Facebook
    Instagram
    Youtube - we make a video about every country we visited so far (well a little behind now haha)

    Cheers from North India
    Xenia & Tinu
    We have a spare bed (sofa-bed) in Auckland if you need somewhere to stay for a few days.
    Would be good to compare stories etc. and can help out with route planning.
    Send me a pm if you like.
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    Quote Originally Posted by XT Adventures View Post
    Hey everyone

    We are a couple from Switzerland, who are riding our two Yamaha XT660 (I ride an R version and my boyfriend the Ténéré) towards New Zealand at the moment. At the moment we are in Indiaand will ship our bikes by the end of the year to your beautiful country. On the 21st of January we will fly into Auckland and have around 3 month to travel around before we head to Australia.

    It would be great to catch up with some of you guys while we are on the road and we might have one or two questions about some good offroad tracks

    In case you would like to check out what we did so far you can do so here:
    www.xtadventures.ch
    Facebook
    Instagram
    Youtube - we make a video about every country we visited so far (well a little behind now haha)

    Cheers from North India
    Xenia & Tinu

    Hi Xenia and Tinu,

    My wife and I live in Tauranga, both ride bikes (as do lots of our friends) and have both travelled a fair bit. We have a spare room and room in the garage for the bikes as well as a decent amount of tools for maintenance. You are very welcome to come and stay with us

    Col and Steph

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    You guys sure know what you're doing!

    Nice website too, most people rely on forums etc for their blogs so it's nice to see some effort put in!

    Enjoy your trip and don't forget to update when you arrive, i'm sure you'll find answers to any questions you might have

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    Quote Originally Posted by Col69 View Post
    Hi Xenia and Tinu,

    My wife and I live in Tauranga, both ride bikes (as do lots of our friends) and have both travelled a fair bit. We have a spare room and room in the garage for the bikes as well as a decent amount of tools for maintenance. You are very welcome to come and stay with us

    Col and Steph

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    Hey you two thanks so much. We would love to visit you. It would be great to get to know some locals. I will contact you as soon as we arrive in NZ cheers Xenia

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Sichoe View Post
    You guys sure know what you're doing!

    Nice website too, most people rely on forums etc for their blogs so it's nice to see some effort put in!

    Enjoy your trip and don't forget to update when you arrive, i'm sure you'll find answers to any questions you might have
    Thanks Jeff, yeah we try to give something back with our videos, pictures and so on

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whynot View Post
    We have a spare bed (sofa-bed) in Auckland if you need somewhere to stay for a few days.
    Would be good to compare stories etc. and can help out with route planning.
    Send me a pm if you like.
    Sounds great would be lovley to catch up. We stay at a friends place in Auckland but maybe we could meet for dinner or so. I will contact you as soon as we arrive

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    Quote Originally Posted by XT Adventures View Post
    Hey you two thanks so much. We would love to visit you. It would be great to get to know some locals. I will contact you as soon as we arrive in NZ cheers Xenia
    Ok cool, we look forward to meeting you both. Enjoy your travels til then

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    If you guys decide to head up north from Auckland, give me a message on here and I can give you a nights accom etc maybe a ride with as well. Cheers, Al
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    Quote Originally Posted by Laava View Post
    If you guys decide to head up north from Auckland, give me a message on here and I can give you a nights accom etc maybe a ride with as well. Cheers, Al
    Thanks we will go north from Auckland for sure. Just dont know yet if we should do this in January or in April. Hows the weather up north in April?

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