The alpine village of Mount Cook, located in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, provides a range of accommodation from an international style hotel to motels, backpackers and camping.
At 3754 metres, New Zealand's highest mountain, Aoraki Mount Cook is dazzling, yet there are 27 other mountains in this alpine backbone which peak at over 3050 metres, and hundreds of others not far short of that – all making up the famous Southern Alps.
The best way to appreciate the glaciers size and it's stunning features such as the blue ice crevasses would be by air. I had arranged for a helicopter to take us for a scenic flight over the spectacular scenery.
At midday we passed Lake Pukaki. The lake was an unusual shade of beautiful turquoise and was reflecting the surrounding mountains. We had some time here so we took a stroll along the lake's shores and returned to Queenstown before the evening.
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