Mount Cook, New Zealand

Known as Aoraki to the Maori, Mount Cook is the highest mountain of New Zealand. We stayed in the only hotel in the national park (the closest village is around 50km away) and the view of the mountain from our room was absolutely breathtaking. In the morning we took a couple of walks, to Kea Point (no sign of the birds unfortunately) and to the morenic lakes of the 29km long Tasman Glacier.