The glacier scenic road

Fox glacier: Instead of walking up the valley, we drove further away to a viewpoint, where we saw the glacier tongue just under the clouds coming down into the valley. This part of the west coast was formed by glaciers a long time ago and now they are disappearing faster and faster.

Franz Josef Glacier: We followed a nice trail into the valley to a lookout, to see a small part of the glacier underneath the clouds. A picture shows how far it reached down the valley at 1900 and even around 2000 it was still going around the curve but now it's allmost gone.Read more