Canterbury Leisure Tours

Mount Cook/Aoraki Day Tour

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 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 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.

An alpine flight over the National Park can be arranged with Mount Cook Ski Planes (optional). Glacier landings by ski planes are also available.

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. Arrive at your accommodation.

Prices (valid until September 2007) $250 per person, Depart Christchurch 8.00am, Return 9.00pm or $595.00 per person, Depart Christchurch 8.00am, Return 6.30pm by flight and airport transfers.