Located in the heart of the Mackenzie Basin, home to some of the least light-polluted skies in the Southern Hemisphere, Tekapo is a high-country village nestled on the edge of its name-sake Lake Tekapo.

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Mt Cook is only a short distance from Lake Tekapo and the cluster of New Zealand’s highest peaks the Southern Alps border the lake and provide a beautiful backdrop to some of the best views in the world.

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Christchurch International airport is a 3-hour drive away and New Zealand’s most popular tourist route, State Highway 8, passes through Lake Tekapo and provides exquisite views of New Zealand as it should be viewed, ‘naturally’.

Within close proximity to the Southern Lakes District including Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown and Lake Wanaka.

Lakeside Drive,
LAKE TEKAPO

The name Tekapo derives from Maori words Taka (sleeping mat) and Po (night).