Mount Cookare vertically through the Southern Alps in the central South Island, and many snow-covered mountains, stretches hundreds of kilometers. The early navigators approaching the east coast of South Island, when we looked around and saw a towering peaks, that naming this as the “land of the Long White Cloud.” The mountain peaks, 22 more than in the 3000 meters, Mount Cook is the highest peak, 3754 meters above sea level. Mount Cook National Park covers an area of ​​70,011 hectares, which together with the snow-capped mountains, glaciers, rivers, lakes, forests, and animal and highland vegetation, surprise to the people here are unmatched elsewhere. Stands in the top of the peaks of Mount Cook summit year-round snow-covered valley in the mountains, the hidden many of the glaciers. Among them, the Tasman river ice about 29 km wide and 2 km depth 600 m, is the world’s longest glaciers outside the polar. In the ice house, because of its move, with the mountain of rubble fell, with the sun, the ice formed on the surface of the numerous cracks and ice towers, form a varied and dazzling. If you want to Christchurch overlooking the beautiful scenery along the Avon River. This graceful Avon River, along the way is hanging willow shore, due to the early pioneers of the British style, a strong desire to migrate to this, so this wide straight road outside the city in addition, it is that the river runs through the city also graceful , Cambridge, Concord River catching style. Whether tourists or residents, likes pervariabilis roaming the river, or Hang in green, flowers bloom the banks stop and stay.
The beautiful Avon River slowly flows through the shady trees, take a leaf boat, stroll on the river to see the boatman in the hands of a long pole, tap slowly push both sides to see the scenes for things, vessel romantic, as in painting.

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