Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
$360.00
Travel by road to Aoraki Mount Cook, Australasia’s highest mountain, through the spectacular scenery of the Canterbury Plains, the foothills of the Southern Alps from Geraldine to Fairlie and through the MacKenzie Basin, with its brown snowgrass-covered landscape which has an almost desert like aspect, to Lake Tekapo.
Obtain an idyllic photograph of the Church of the Good Shepherd on Lake Tekapo with its backdrop of magnificent alpine scenery.
Next to Lake Pukaki where the Tasman Valley opens into the MacKenzie Basin with Mount Cook and the surrounding snow covered peaks in the background.
Lunch is at the Hermitage in the Mount Cook National Park. Then following lunch you can explore this grand and magnificent region of New Zealand, climb the terminal moraine of the Tasman Glacier to observe the retreating glacier and the newly formed Lake Tasman. You also have the choice of an optional helicopter flight with a snow landing that will give breathtaking views of the area and then land on top of the Tasman Glacier for a photo opportunity.
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