Road Trip: Day 14 - Mount Cook

Today, we drove to Mount Cook, the tallest mountain in New Zealand, at 3754m. The weather, forecast for miserable, was proved wrong and the sky remained an impeccable blue.  We planned to stay there for a while to do some walks to see Mount Doom — as Mount Cook was the very mountain at which they filmed the movie Lord of the Rings. As soon as we arrived, all of us except Grandma and Grandpa walked to the first of three suspension bridges on the track to the Mount Cook lookout. We plan to walk the whole track tomorrow.

A panorama of the bridge and river, with the mountains in the background. No Mount Cook here.

Not Mount Cook, but still very high.