Customise Your Tour with Mountain Chef Gourmet Experience from HeliTours

Heli Tours’ Mountain Chef Gourmet Experience is customised with an itinerary that is perfect for those who want an unique tour of the alpine countryside of the South Island. Snow sprinkled along the Southern Alps provides an amazing backdrop for tourists.

With the Mountain Chef Gourmet Experience tourists can enjoy a private kiwi-style BBQ lunch cooked by a private chef at a unique back country cabin or hut. They can take in the scenery while tasting the best New Zealand has to offer and learn about the local history, flora and fauna. Mountain chef is a great add-on to their Milford and farm tour experiences and is quite popular. 

The tour leaves the beautiful blue colours of Lake Wakatipu and Queenstown and fly west towards Milford Sound with vast areas of native forest and alpine high-country farmland. Into the Fiordland National park there are numerous hidden valleys, waterfalls and alpine lakes before landing at Milford Sound for a short walk and photo opportunities.

On the way back through Fiordland tourists fly past beautiful sub-tropical rainforest, glacier carved valleys with ice shelves and glaciers before enjoying a snow landing for photo opportunities. They then continue to the remote destination where private Mountain Chef Katherine, owner of Heli Tours Queenstown, will have a locally sourced lunch prepared.

Tourists can enjoy a selection of BBQ meats, fish, salads, breads, local beer and wine in a remote location before the return flight to Queenstown.  The full day tour includes three landings and Mountain Chef gourmet lunch.

The half day option is also available that departs from Queenstown Airport directly to the remote destination for the Mountain Chef experience. The half day option also includes one landing and Mountain Chef gourmet lunch.

Heli Tours can arrange other customised tours like celebration flights which involves a private picnic in a remote location or a long lunch at a Central Otago vineyard. They can also arrange celebration flights for marriage proposals, arrange weddings in remote areas along with photography. The company has a list of unique sites accessible only by helicopter for wedding ceremonies or for photo opportunities.

Heli Tours also has a tie-up with Luxury Lodges of New Zealand  to provide a safe and efficient Heli transfer to a local luxury accommodation. They can also arrange small corporate groups to access a remote back country hut for a lunch or a champagne on a peak.

Heli Tours can be contacted on 0800 HeliTours (0800 435 486)

For more information on attractions Queenstown, Queenstown sightseeing, Queenstown wine tour, helicopter rides and more, visit http://www.helitours.co.nz/