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Alpine Grandeur Zone's    Main Attractions  &  Social Studies

Mt Cook National Park

This park includes the highest alps of New Zealand. Its administrators have successfully develop walking tracks, roads, alpine cabins, services, and facilities to balance the natural conditions and the encouragement of its use. Home of the "Rings". Massive tectonic forces have formed the highest mountains right here.  KANES coach enters their midst allowing safe access to the walking trails to the glaciers, their forming lakes, avalanche areas and icebergs.   Studies We can experience the work of and rules that allow national parks to balance the protection of the geography, flora and fauna with the needs of visitors.  We explore the information centre and the parks facilities.  For interested groups and a small fee KANES  can often arrange for an officer of the park to address the group. All around you nature is continually carving shattering and shaping. The stunning beauty of the Alps and developing lakes provide stark contrast to the barren flat tundra we crossed to get here.  Information centres and scenic flights enable you to fully understand the region. Photos simply cannot capture the grandeur. Here we experience collapsing ice cliffs, regular avalanches and massive rock-covered glaciers.  Audio-visual and studies assist us comprehend this geography in motion!  The lessons here are empowering experiences! Try a visit the (third) luxury Hermitage Hotel and explore the park's alpine settlement. A café and souvenir shop is an attraction after a walk on one of the exquisite mountain trails nearby. You can touch the spectacular uplifting snow covered Alps with their huge glaciers and deadly avalanches.  The yellows, browns and greys of the tundra touching the 3000 metre Alps are made up of alpine grasses, glacial and river deposits placed within the last 25,000 years. Seven big lakes form part of New Zealand’s largest Hydro electric complex. Link images

 take you there - Place of outstanding grandeur
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