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Restaurants & cafés

Monsoon Restaurant & Bar
Franz Josef's pan-Asian restaurant with the village's most consistent dinner kitchen and live music several nights a week. The casual evening choice.

The Landing Bar & Restaurant
Long-running pub-and-restaurant on the main street with the casual pub menu, a long taps list and the kind of room that fills with hikers after a day on the ice. The casual answer for a group.

Trails & outdoors

Franz Josef Glacier Valley Walk
The standard 90-minute return walk up the glacial valley to the glacier viewing platform 750m from the terminal face. Flat, well-signed, free, and the only legal way to approach the glacier on foot.

Fox Glacier Valley Walk
The 90-minute return walk up the Fox glacial valley to a viewing platform near the terminal face. Less crowded than Franz Josef and equally dramatic.

Things to do

Heli-Hike on Franz Josef Glacier
Helicopter to a landing on the glacier, then a guided 2-3 hour walk on the ice with crampons and an experienced guide. The only legal way to walk on the glacier and the signature Franz Josef experience.

Helicopter Scenic Flight (Glaciers + Mt Cook)
Half-hour scenic flight up both glaciers and the Tasman Glacier with a snow landing for photos near Mt Cook. The aerial way to see the alps from the West Coast.

Landmarks & sights

Franz Josef Glacier (Ka Roimata o Hine Hukatere)
A 12km river of ice tumbling down a steep valley from the Southern Alps to within 200m of sea-level rainforest. The valley-floor walk gets you to a viewing platform 750m from the terminal face; helicopters and guided heli-hikes are the only way to walk on the ice. The defining sight of the West Coast.

Fox Glacier (Te Moeka o Tuawe)
The sister glacier 25 minutes south of Franz Josef, slightly longer and flatter, with its own valley walk and helicopter base. Less crowded than Franz Josef and equally dramatic. Many visitors do both.

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