Its a Fjord not a Sound - Duh! 28/02/2007

I(Tim) have to be honest and admit that I was a bit worried about Milford Sound. We both wanted to go there but did we want to stay at what is basically and literally the last stop in the road in South East NZ. The answer was in the end...yes. The guesthouse was lovely, in a setting which was a mixture between Vang Vien in Laos and Krabi in Thailand; though the Sound/Fjord was not visible from our location, we still had fantastic views of the mountains surrounding us and of the river runnng into the fjord. And even though the electricity generator turned off at 11.00pm the place had all of the luxuries we were used to, even that age-old classic battleships (Minus half of the battleships) which Priya very luckily beat me on a number of occassions. Now, the main reason we were here of course was to see Milford Sound itself, which as the title of this entry suggests is actually a Fjord not a Sound - If you wish to know the exact difference between the two I suggest you use your exstensive internet ability and run a google search.

We were going to wait for our second day in the place before we got ourselves involved in a boat tour but the weather forecast was ominous so we departed the afternoon we arrived for a 2 hour and thirty minute cruise of this unbeleivable scenery. Words cannot really do it justice, but Priya took that into account and took approximately 1 billion photographs (some of which are very good, I have to admit!). The weather was fantastic, but still very windy and incredibly cold as we were on an opening to the Tasman Sea - notoriously cold like the North Sea; and the scenery was stunning so it was proabaly the best 150 minutes we've spent since travelling. One of the highlights was when the boat maneuvered its front under a waterfall and gave everone the experience of getting sprayed by the ice-cold pure mountain-fresh springwater - truly fantastic.

Our second day was spent relaxing, reading, eating, walking and packing for our next destination, the Adreniline capital of New Zealand...... Queenstown.

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Priya&Tim on March 1, 2007 from Te Anau, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Cheeky Round The World Trip

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