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Aoraki Mount Cook National Park Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand
Mount Cook
This is a top pick! We left Christchurch for Mt Cook stopping at Late Tekapo, a beautiful vast lake surrounded by snowy mountains. Once we'd negotiated the Japanese tourists we had a lovely walk along the lake and found a cracking spot for lunch! We arrived in Mt ...
In Awe of Giants
This is a top pick! ... first ascent of the South face of the mountain. And that is where we drove to visit after leaving Wanaka 3 hrs West. Mount Cook National Park. We arrived in the National Park, 55km off the main East to West highway out of Christchurch. Putting things in ...
Ice Is Nice
This is a top pick! ... 8217;ve guessed... I have to tell you, I’m having a difficult time differentiating accents on this trip. I’m in New Zealand, so when a person starts talking to me with a pleasing lilt roaming around their tongue you’d think chances would ...
Up, Up, And Away...
This is a top pick! ... running into so many different people. It’s a great mix of cultures. It just goes to show how important tourism is to New Zealand’s economy. Second only to sheep, I’m sure. Our next point of interest was Lake Pukaki. Both of these lakes ...
Hike To The Heavens
This is a top pick! ... the tropics, mixed them in a giant pot and scattered them all over the valley floor. The birds and insects were buzzing with delight. New Zealand seems to always have a sweet smell in the air, but up by Mt. Cook that scent came to full blossom upon the ...
Mind warp in time and space continuum
This is a top pick! ... which had been recommended to us by Rorie and Emer. It adjoins the Hermitage Hotel, questionably the most famous hotel in New Zealand that has been welcoming visitors for over 100 years. We paid 26 Dollars each for the 'Explorer Pass’ which ...
Losing it and each other in Mount Cook
This is a top pick! ... quickly than it had arrived. We got on the road without breakfast as we had heard that the campsite at Mount Cook, the highest mountain in New Zealand and Australasia standing at a very imposing 3755 metres, was the place to sit and enjoy cooking up ...
D Day
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas March 6 D-day One by one, they change colour without anyone noticing... slowly, simply yet surely... sometimes, when the sun is shining, one can catch a flash of silver but the truth is, it takes years to one day discover ...
Mt Cook
This is a top pick! ... tried to swim in the beautiful turquoise lake Pukaki, but as we can see in the photos, it did not last long! Corinne 4 Mars, Mount Cook Si nous avions demandé un beau jour, nous n’aurions pas pu en avoir de meilleur…. l’air était si ...
Back on the Ground in Mount Cook
This is a top pick! Flying back to air-field I had spotted that there were sheep being driven up the road towards Mt Cook Village, so what did we find in front of us as we got back on the road but sheep bottoms - Merino ones at that! How the weather had change! We had a ...
Front Row Seats
This is a top pick! ... from the constant downpour and the scary-sounding winds out there. We suspect it's gonna be a cold one tonight! As we approached Mount Cook village that afternoon, we caught a bit of a "tan in the van" and sunglasses were not optional. Our skin was still ...
Aoraki / Mt Cook
Aoraki / Mt Cook We zijn zaterdag van Christchurch naar Mount Cook gereden. Na een overnachting op de camping vlakbij (25km) zijn we vandaag, zondag richting Mt Cook gegaan om een stukje te wandelen. De vorige keer (3 jr geleden) hebben we Hooker Valley ...
Days 99-101 - Kaikoura - Mount Cook Nat Park
... for ages and we couldn't see anything around to clean it ourselves. It's a shame, all the firewood everywhere, it is autumn in New Zealand now and particularly here, you can tell. At least we were lovely and warm cuddled up under our duvet in the van but ...
Yeah!! Mount Cook/Aoraki
... the starts and the galaxy and the future, it was all well worth the money, a really enjoyable time. We did learn that Mount Cook/Aoraki is crumbling, and there is concern, and also when it does, noone will no where the nearby towns will get the water ...
Great views of Aoraki Mount Cook
... been travelling much the same path as we have although they're off to Australia to work after NZ. Aoraki Mount Cook is really for enthusiasts as there are only a few trails and the rest requires mountaineering equipment, crampons and the ...
Aoraki/Mount Cook
Spent one day in Aoraki/Mount Cook village, the highest mountain in NZ, at 3740m. We did a few tramps, for glacier and mountain views. One glacier was mostly covered in rocks, so it looked more like a gravel pit, but some of the other walks were ...
Day 49: Mount Cook
... the pulpit was a big (panoramic in fact) window that just looked out onto the Lake and mountains behind. We drove to Mount Cook National Park and did a short bush walk in the village. We then went to see a 3D film presentation that covered ...
Ik ben verliefd! Op een berg!
... Het meer heeft maar liefst een omtrek van meer dan 500 km. En iedere bocht geeft weer een onbeschrijfelijk uitzicht. Mount Cook We zijn vandaag vertrokken uit Q-town en zitten nu in de aoriki mount cook village. Een ieniemienie dorpje aan de ...
After the rain comes sun...*
Aoraki is the Maori name for Mt Cook, named after James Cook and the highest peak in Australia/Oceania. It is so sacred to the Maori that only the chiefs are allowed to even look at it. They also required that no one climb to the very top of it (I think ...
Lake Tekapo & Mt Cook
... po raz pierwszy w zyciu tak dokladnie moglem podziwiac droge mleczna na wlasne oczy. Nastepnego dnia pojechalismy do miejscowości Mount Cook (która nosi swa nazwe od najwyzszego szczytu), gdzie zrobilismy trase w dolinie lodowca Hooker. Koniec trasy ...
Mount Cook
Heute haben wir einen Tagesausflug in den 707 km² großen "Mount-Cook-Nationalpark" unternommen. Der Park liegt in den neuseeländischen Alpen und beheimatet 140 Berge mit einer Höhe von über 2000 Metern - 40 Prozent davon sind vergletschert. Mit 3754 ...
Room with a View
... like home - cloudy and wet - and we seem to have lost the lucky streak with the weather. Our first main stop is Aoraki Mount Cook Village. There is only one hotel group operating in the park and its pretty pricy so we had booked the lowest cost option ...
Relaxing in Mount Cook
I left Queenstown the next day, and hopped on the bus to Aoraki Mount Cook National Park. The drive was beautiful. We drove through some amazing landscape with mountains everywhere. On the way we stopped at the stunning Lake Tekapo. It a huge sparkling ...
New Zealand's tallest mountain
... staggering. When we got to the gift shop we simply had to buy stuff - all easter products were on 50% off, and there's a New Zealand product called a Jaffa, which we hadn't ever heard of before, so of course we had to try that! After travelling on the ...
Regen Sonne Regen Sonne BERG!
... 'ngebrücken und enge Holzpfade, die in Mitten der hohen Gräser angelegt waren. Eine der schönsten Talwanderungen im Mount Cook National Park, womit wir auch zum Highlight unserer Wanderung kommen! Wir hatten einen wolken- und nebelfreien Blick auf den ...
White Christmas (just a long way up to the snow)
... 't spot them, which was a shame, but the walk certainly provided a fitting to our time at the park. I was already in love with New Zealand. We were pretty tired after our day's excursions but couldn't resist one last little trip 40km further north ...