Lake Tekapo/Takapo View Point — Attraction in South Island

Beautiful beautiful lake, but accommodations are super expensive compared to other areas. I suppose they are capitalizing on the tourism for Mt. Cook. If I lived there I would get a fixer upper, install nice updates and make it like “home” (where we stayed was kinda dumpy) and undercut everyone else. Anyway, there’s not much to do there once you have driven and hiked at Mt Cook, gazed at the stars and hiked around…except drive around the lake on the gravel road. We like dirt roads. You never know what you may find. Just stay one, no more than two...

The view is breathtaking. The walk and hiking trail was nice and not too difficult. Had a great time both daytime, and we went back again at night to catch the starry sky. The sky is filled with so many many stars. Will attached pic of the nite however, the pic was caught with my phone camera, so not as nice if you could catch it with a professional camera 🙂. It's definitely a place to come back...

Lake and view is beautiful, not much to do here and don't expect to get much food, half the shops shut and couldn't buy anything around 4 - 430pm Most shops run heavily by asain's, maybe to cater for the asain tourist,not many options to stay in motor home so will be moving on...