Headed to the Auckland airport this morning and I had to fill up my car before I returned it to the rental place. I was amazed when it cost me NZ$99 to fill up the tank and I was driving a small sedan, imagine an SUV...
I had a short hour and a half flight down to Queenstown, which is in the southern central part of the South island and is know as the adventure capital. After landing I took the public bus into town and found my hostel. The next morning I had another early morning, as my tour bus for the Milford Sound left at 7:45 am. It was a four hour bus ride to the sound, the first two hours are farm land and I took the bus drivers advice to catch up on some sleep. Two hours later we stopped in a town called Te Anau, which is on another one of the NZ's many pristine lakes, this town is also the entrance to the national Fiord park where the Milford sound is located. Next we stopped at the mirror lakes, which got their names from the water that is extremely reflective due to the plants living in it. We then continued on to The Valley of a Thousand Waterfalls and because it had rained the day before, there were water falls all around us as we drove through. After numerous hours of driving we finally arrived at the remote Milford Sound for our boat tour. On the boat we saw seals sun bathing on the rocks and many more waterfalls emptying into the fiord off the dramatic cliffs that surround it. Upon getting back to the harbor, I tried to book a helicopter ride up to one of the glacier but unfortunately they were all booked and I was out of luck and left with no other option but a four hour bus ride back to Queenstown.
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| Enjoying my venison meat pie on the dock at Te Anau |
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| The beautiful mirror lakes |
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| Getting soaked by a freezing waterfall as the boat goes under it. |
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| Natural beauty, Milford Sound |
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