Doubtful Sound Te Anau

Zu jeder Reise auf Neuseelands Südinsel, gehört ein Besuch in den Fjordland Nationalpark. Fast alle Touristen erkunden den Milford Sound, weshalb ich mich für den Doubtful Sound entscheide. Er ist grösser, länger und abwechslungsreicher, dafür etwas we***** spektakulär und aufwendiger zu erreichen. Der Name Sound stimmt hier eigentlich nicht, denn …

From Alices Diary

Tuesday 1.11.11 – Scenic Cruising – Fiordland National Park

Weather: Cloudy Skies with Rain, North Easterly Winds 14 Deg C

"Today we are sailing along the south coast of New Zealand. We will not be setting foot again on New Zealand soil. So far it has been a great journey. We are really …

First off, to the more observant of you, yes there is a gray speck on my camera lens. We can't get it off. Sometimes we're able to place it over some rocks or trees, but it's always there. About half way through this post is where we put the camera away and switched to my phone camera... which as it turns out takes much nicer photos and fits in my …

Saturday 21st May
Off to Doubtful Sound today! The only way you can visit Doubtful Sound is by a Tour form here in Te Anau or from nearby Manapuri, it is much less accesible than Milford Sound which is why most tourists tend to bypass Doubtful Sound and flock to Milford. Sandwiches made and back packed as we eagerley waited for our bus to …

Today we left Queenstown even earlier to see one of the other fiords in the area - Doubtful Sound. One of the major differences of the experience was the fact we did not spend most of the day on a bus: from the southern town of Manapouri we boarded a vessel that traversed Lake Manapouri, a lake with thirty smaller islands of various shapes and …

So for those of you reading this day by day you'll have noted we said we were going a interesting cinema on the evening of the 13th (Happy birthday to Hannah's mum). Interesting was definitely the word, this cinema had a car in in which people could sit, sofas, aeroplane seats, duvets to use cookies which they cooked as the first half of the film …

I was excited about today's outing as I had wanted to do it since I arrived back in Queenstown all those months ago. I was going to Doubtful Sound!!!

The bus arrived at the exact mid way point between 8.45 and 9am just like the woman in the i-site told me that they would, this made me happy, and the rest of the day ran just as well, it was …

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Der dritte Advent ist für uns angebrochen. WIr haben uns Weihnachten noch nie so fern gefühlt...
Der Morgen beginnt nach einem schnellen Muffin-Frühstück mit der Fahrt nach Te Anau. Es geht zuerst den kleineren Seitenarm des Lake Wakatipu entlang, schöne Aussicht auf das andere, ruhige Seeufer. Das Schöne hier in NZ ist, daß so wenig …

dag 71: Vandaag verlaten we voor 2 dagen en 1 nacht de vetste plaats op aarde en gaan we naar wat men zegt een van de mooiste plaatsen op aarde: Doubtful Sound. Sound is een ander woord voor fjord, een door een gletsjer uitgesleten inham in een bergachtige kust. Doubtful komt van het feit dat cpt. Cook, die het ding ontdekt heeft, niet zeker wist …

... early this morning and headed to Manapouri. What's in Manapouri? Not much. Lake Manapouri is the starting point for trips to Doubtful Sound. I took the Real Journeys bus in and headed across Lake Manapouri, which was quite cold. Once on the ground ...

... is much more interesting than Lake Te Anau. This was my second time on Lake Manapouri (the first being on the way to Doubtful Sound). This trip was very calm and the weather was perfect. I'm looking forward to heading out there for a few days with ...

... chefs from THV discovered that when I'm asleep, there is no waking me. Luckily they're technologically disadvantaged or my video from Doubtful Sound would've included more footage than I would've liked. A little more on the music that saved me from ...

... bus some 20 minutes later, especially when we emerged from the tunnel to much clearer skies. The road from Lake Manapouri to Doubtful Sound only opened in 1959, and before then it was virtually impossible to reach the Sound. Indeed, Captain Cook was ...

... flying as we made our way above the cloud base. We were already seeing stunning waterfalls and beautiful forna. We finally reached the Doubtful Sound in all its glory. We boarded another small boat and headed into the sound. I was outside again, I ...

... airport, we made our way to Te Anau. This is a pleasant town by the lake, which exists as a service town to Milford and Doubtful Sound. On our first full day we were up and off to Doubtful. We boarded our first boat on Lake Manapouri. I had stayed by ...

... Manapouri for our boat to take us over the lake to then get our bus to then take us to the next lake for us boat to Doubtful Sound. Is pretty remote and very few tourists come here which makes it better in some ways to Milford. Small group of 15 of us ...

... A deep blue lake framed by mountains and trees and rippling clouds overheard. Tomorrow we were scheduled to head out onto that lake, buss over the pass, and embark on our Doubtful Sound overnight cruise. This scenery was definitely whetting our ...

... so we booked in and dumped our stuff and headed back into town to pay for our trips. While I was there I booked a trip to the doubtful sound for the next day. We only had 30mins to look around town and get some lunch and some munchies to take with us; ...

... world by trampers (hikers) as one of the best walks you can do. I plan on doing some kayaking in Milford Sound and/or Doubtful Sound also. Southland is an amazing area and Fiordland is a World Heritage Site. Basically, there are parts of this area ...