On our New Zealand tour, from north to south, we see a lot of New Zealand’s landscape. Beautiful, sometimes spectacular.
Perhaps the most extraordinary is Mount Cook Aoraki, New Zealand’s highest mountain and the pride and summit of the Southern Alps. We spend a night at the Aoraki Mount Cook nature reserve and go for a boat excursion on Lake Tasman to take a close (but not too close) look at the icebergs and the Tasman Glacier.
Next to it are the two extraordinary, intensely blue glacier lakes, Pukaki and Tekapo.
Aoraki Mount Cook reaches a height of 3,724 metres (12,218 feet). Not long ago, it was 3,764 meters high, but then something happened in December 1991…
Read more in Per’s article (with text, photos and videos) on BKWine’s Wine Tour Blog: The unforgettable spectacle of Mount Cook and the Tasman Glacier Lake.
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