DAY 18: Helicopter flight round Mt Cook and the glaciers

Our first break in the weather in 3 days and we were on the first or second helicopter flight that morning at 8.45am (booked previous night and they have to have a minumum of 4 people to fly but the time of year you‘re going sort this out early). Go for the full package even though it’ll burn a whole in the credit card (it’s the cheapest place to do this flight from although you can do it from Queenstown but it’ll cost an extra 150bucks per person). Also go helicopter-that way you get to land on the neve above the snow line which is amazing-the planes can’t do this. It’s only 45minutes and costs NZD350 per person but I’d do it again tomorrow. I’ve been in helicopters before but not in this kind of scenery it’s very special. The glaciers were awesome but then so was Mt Cook and Mt Tasman.