Mt Cook

    Mount Cook is New Zealand's highest mountain reaching 12,349 feet into the sky.  It is considered sacred to the Ngai Tahu tribe.  Situated in the Aoraki National Park is it an area for hiking and exploring nature at in it's purest form.
Accommodations

Mt Cook Hermitage Chalets

Trip to Mt Cook

Moeraki Boulders:

The Moeraki Boulders are the stonehenge of New Zealand. There isn't a definite answer to why they are there, they just are.
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Scientists say that the boulders are formed out of a carbonate of lime, silica, alumina and peroxide of iron, and that the shape of them have nothing to do with the sea.

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    Maori Legend claims food baskets were washed ashore at Moeraki from the canoe Arai-uru which was wrecked off the coast on a voyage south in search of a precious stone (Jade).  Whatever you believe, they're worth the stop.

Landscape

    The Maori explanation for the mountains is that the range was formed when a boy, Aoraki, and his three brothers came down from heaven to visit Papatuanuku (Earth Mother) in a canoe.  When the canoe overturned the brothers turned to stone forming the mountains.

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For More Information:
http://www.mount-cook.com/
http://www.mtcook.org.nz/
http://www.alpineguides.co.nz/