The other tour of the day, the glacier tour at Mt Cook area. Aoraki Mt Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand and is home to some of the most interesting stuff I've seen. Besides 'river of rocks' and climbing up what seem to be Mordor, there's a bumpy ride on the 4WD vehicle. Felt like Frodo in his journey when we were climbing up the rocky hill. Here's the other highlights of the tour
From rocks, we get moss, from moss we get soil, from soil we will get plants and trees. The process will take hundreds of years.From Tasman glacier, we get this piece of ice, formed under pressure of snow, and ended up at the lake due to the global warming. Can see little stones inside the ice.See the little boat there? This will give us a better idea of the size of the place. Pity that the clouds covered the peaks.The stitch of Tasman glacier. The grey part is the glacier, the milky white part the lake. It's grey due to the little rocks that piled up after the ice melted. Barely a hundred years ago, the glacier was as high as where I was standing when I took this picture and end up as for as the spot where I stood when I took the previous picture.
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