Hare Krishna devotee John Herbison (60) is on a year-long trek to mark the 50th anniversary of the Hare Krishna movement in the Western world.
Mr Herbison, travelling under his religious name, Yasoda Dulal Das, is travelling with a 15-year-old gypsy cob horse called Rasaraj and a 100-year-old cart.
The cart is a small temple, a pilgrim tradition dating back 5000 years.
The spiritual journey left Christchurch in August and travelled to Bluff via Queenstown, and would end in Auckland in July next year, he said.
"My message is simple living and high thinking.''
People's lives were often more complicated than necessary and their lifestyles were putting a strain on Earth's resources, he said.
To emphasise a slower pace of life, he travelled about 25km a day.
Motorists had been great at sharing the road and the people had been friendly, giving Rasaraj hay and vegetables.
Accommodation on the journey included a hay barn on a southern farm and a swag on a Mackenzie Country riverside.
The former George Street Normal School and Waitaki Boys' High School pupil arrived to Dunedin on Friday and stayed near Tunnel Beach.
Mr Herbison has stayed at the Hare Krishna Cultural Centre in London St since Saturday night and Rasaraj was staying in a Leith Valley paddock.
They would head north to Waitati today.
Members of the Hare Krishna movement were travelling around 50 countries to mark the anniversary.
