Day 1 - Mt Cook to Tekapo
63 km, 7.0 hrs
Our first day dawned cloudy and cold. We had taken a shuttle from Oamaru to Twizel the previous afternoon, and had booked a morning shuttle from Twizel to the start point at Mt Cook village. The first section involves cycling for about 8 km to the airport, then a mandatory helicopter flight across the river to ride down the eastern side of Lake Pukaki to Braemar Rd (a further 25 km). Normally riders would then continue on to Twizel (41 km) but we opted to ride on Braemar Rd to Tekapo instead. This proved to be much harder than expected, with deep gravel that made it hard going both uphill and down!
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8 am shuttle from Twizel to Mt Cook village
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At the Mt Cook start point
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Helicopter ride across the Tasman River
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Sheep being mustered across the road
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Braemar Rd - 22 km of hard slog
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Day 2 - Tekapo
We had planned to have a whole day in Tekapo to explore. We went for a leisurely stroll in the morning around the lakefront and up to Cowans Hill. In the afternoon we walked to the hot pools and back, and in the evening we did the Mt John observatory tour.
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Church of the Good Shepherd
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Lake Tekapo and Southern Alps
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