| Mount Cook Day Tour: Tour CLT 05 - Mount Cook - Aoraki Travel by road to 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 magnificient 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 at the Hermitage in the Mount Cook National Park, 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. Itinerary - Travel by road to Mount Cook through the Canterbury Plains, the foothills of the Southern Alps and the MacKenzie Basin
- A short stop at either the Tin Shed (an old shearing shed selling discount sweaters) or at Barkers Winery (the largest fruit winery in NZ) for tastings of wines, sauces and jams
- Stop at Lake Tekapo for morning tea and a photo opportunity
- A photo stop at Lake Pukaki will provide you with magnificent views of the Mount Cook National Park
- Lunch at the Hermitage situated at the base of Mount Cook
- Following lunch an alpine flight over the National Park can be arranged with Mount Cook Airlines (optional) glacier landings by ski planes are also available
- Drive into the Tasman Glacier where a twenty minute climb by foot will take you to the top of the terminal moraine, this vantage point provides views of both the Tasman Glacier and the newly formed Lake Tasman
- Return to Christchurch by road stopping at the Canterbury high country town of Fairlie for late afternoon tea or alternatively return to
- Christchurch by plane (see CLT 05A)
Returned to your accommodation Collected Between 7:15 am and 8.00 a.m.
Arrive Mt Cook 1.00 p.m.
Depart Mt Cook 5.00 p.m.
Returned 9.00 p.m. Tour CLT 05A Return flight Option - As above and including a return flight to Christchurch and airport transfers. Minimum of 3 passengers.
Depart Mt Cook 4.50 p.m.
Returned 6.00 - 6.30 p.m.
(Tour price includes lunch at the Hermitage, morning tea at Lake Tekapo and afternoon tea Fairlie and with tour CLT 05A flight costs from Mt Cook to Christchurch and airport transfers)
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