Aoraki/Mount Cook
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9 min readMay 19, 2021
NEW ZEALAND’s highest peak, Aoraki/Mount Cook, lies at the heart of a national park that combines dangerous mountaineering opportunities with simple, scenic daywalks and the start of the Alps 2 Ocean cycle trail, which goes all the way down to Oamaru.
At the heart of the national park there is a tourist village called the Aoraki/Mount Cook Village. The village is totally accessible by car and bus, and you can use it as a base for…
