Milford Sound, New Zealand Travel Blogs

A very early start saw me boarding a minibus and heading to Milford Sound. This was my second trip to the sound. The first time round, after I walked the Milford track, it was raining so heavily it was impossible to see anything. I was going to conduct my ...

A travel blog entry by fyrelizard
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... , a very friendly member of the crew, surprised us both by bringing our desserts outside! So we watched a glorious sunset on Milford Sound whilst eating walnut shortbread with fried apple and cream - luxury! When the sun eventually went down, we went ...

A travel blog entry by rich
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From Te Anau, our base for this part of the trip, we drove down to explore the area surrounding Milford Sound. Milford Sound is known for it almost always being wet there, receiving around 9 metres of rain in a year! So we were pretty pleased when we set ...

A travel blog entry by carolandthomas
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... to avoid a busy boat, we were back on shore for 11am leaving us the whole day to explore around the areas surrounding Milford Sound, and enjoy a nice relaxing drive back up the hill, and along Milford Road, stopping to take in some amazing views of ...

A travel blog entry by paulandciara
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... Walks Peak Season you will need to leave Dumpling Hut at 8-9am, to meet with the boats departing from Sandfly Point to Milford Sound. The boat crossing takes approximately 20 minutes. DOC Time : 6 Hours Total Time : 4 Hours 50 minutes Actual ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
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... on the viewing deck in the hope that I would see some penguins, but with no luck just dolphin's and seals-boo sucks. Milford sound is very beautiful and as you can see from the photos very atmospheric when the clouds come down, it's almost like being in ...

A travel blog entry by penguinmad
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... a place to book our next 2 trips down the sounds at reasonable ish prices. Parked up along the lake here towards Milford Sound. Remarked next morning as we woke up to another stunning vista that its very difficult to get nice locations for a meals and ...

A travel blog entry by emanddave
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... today to soak up the scenery as we had plenty of time to spare. Also, the weather will get worse the closer we get to Milford Sound, so we need to make the most of the clear blue skies today. We arrived at Clinton Hut at about 2pm and basically just ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
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... get a lot of drizzle today. This is fantastic news for the waterfalls, especially the Sutherland Falls which are the highest in New Zealand. The weather contrasts have been fantastic with the clear sunny skies for two days and now the spooky mist covered ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
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... Queenstown, well really as soon as we arrived in the South island, we had been told again and again to visit Milford Sound. Although interested, we weren't particularly happy to pay Kiwi Experience another $150 for the trip. Instead we went against the ...

A travel blog entry by mattmcshane
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... town of Queenstown behind, and head for Milford Sound. Famed for having some of the best scenery in New Zealand. The usual tourist thing to do in Milford Sound is to take a cruise around the beautiful fiord. But no! That's not good enough for hyper- ...

A travel blog entry by marc-patty
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... just over the almost impassible ones it rains over 10 metres a year!!! Thats less than 20 miles away!! Mad stuff. Milford sound is in Fiordland, a massive and barely explored national park on the bottom left of the South Island on the opposite ...

A travel blog entry by meercatvinny
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... It just doesn't get much better. We stopped off at the mirror lakes first of all, and then headed all the way into Milford Sound. It meant travelling through Homer tunel. Literally to get through a mountain, between 1935 and 1953, a big hole was dug. ...

A travel blog entry by tonyandsarah
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... 's perfect weather in the evening today had turned grey and cloudy obviously known that I was out today for some sight seeing. Milford Sound ain't actually that far from Queenstown but still takes around 5 hours to get there due to the road taken a ...

A travel blog entry by alasdairm
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A travel blog entry by tracy_coward
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... tree avalanche like a stack of dominoes. Waterfalls cascade effortlessly and behind us the snow covered mountains peek over into the valley. Milford Sound is actually wrongly named; a Sound is a valley that has been carved out by the sea and a Fiord is ...

A travel blog entry by marshallmatters
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... boat cruises to Doubtful Sound, one of the 14 dramatic fjords carved into the rugged south-west coast. Whereas its neighbour, Milford Sound, is world famous for its sheer cliffs and many waterfalls plunging straight into the sea, Doubtful is more isolated ...

A travel blog entry by idarich
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... after us as we left - obviously craving the attention (or food) that the odd tourist gives. Getting closer to Milford Sound the water flowing down the mountains became more and more prevalent, turning into huge waterfalls and rapids at various points ...

A travel blog entry by gonetilwhenever
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... town of Lumsden to travel the final 80km back to the Fiordland National Park. After our brief and unsuccessful attempt to visit the Milford Sound some ten days earlier we arrived back in the town of Te Anau ready for another go the following day. We ...

A travel blog entry by escapetherace
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... has an amazing and diverse landscape/seascape, and Milford Sound is no exception. Many say it is the best that New Zealand has to offer and we wouldn't argue. Milford Sound is special in a number of ways. In fact it's not a Sound at all, it's actually a ...

A travel blog entry by chris_and_kelly
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... it sounds like she's retired already anyway! Only kidding Sis, love you really. Both Lorna & I send our best wishes from the Milford Track! Unbelievably we had a sun clear blue day again today - unheard of in Milford at this time of year. We do hope to ...

A travel blog entry by vickersontour
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... foaming white water rivers strewn with boulders, and the occassional patch of snow right along the roadside (its summer?). Reach Milford Sound itself - nothing here other than boat cruise companies, and cruise the sound itself, where you see dozens more ...

A travel blog entry by shaunduvall
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... tall and pointed Mitre peak in the background nearly 1700 metres above the fiord. It's a magical scene. Decided to take a Milford Sound cruise, I love boats but I hate these touristly excursions but sometimes you have to bite the bullet if you want to ...

A travel blog entry by christosp
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... out the best campsite - Lake Gunn. Although I have to say it was hard choosing as nearly every NT campsite on the was to Milford sound is set in amazing surroundings. The rest of the drive to MS was incredible with waterfalls gushing down the sides of the ...

A travel blog entry by roundtheworld
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... including Mitre Peak.. As we started our cruise the clouds began to descend down the mountain sides creating a real ephemeral feel. Milford sound was beautiful (but not as special as doubtful sound). On the wildlife front saw a pengion swimming and a few ...

A travel blog entry by supertrampz
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... carved out by glacial action over millions of years and an Ice Age or two. Located in, appropriately enough, Fiordland National Park Milford Sound is one of the wettest places on earth, raining about two out of every three days and dumping about 25 feet ...

A travel blog entry by dazzla
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... just totally stunning. On that day in Te Anau it did absolutley nothing but rain. We were planning a trip out to Milford Sound - one of New Zealands highlights and now we have been we can say definatly one of the highlights of our entire trip. Our plan was ...

A travel blog entry by alinmattrtw2005
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Hi Guys, You can read our update from Milford Sound in our entry from Kaikoura, New Zealand entitled 'The Last of the Cliff Climbing Penguins!'. Cheers, K & S

A travel blog entry by kevandsian
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... that the road was closed for the night and to just pull into the visitor center parking lot for the night. Been stranded in Milford Sound wasn't too bad. We found a pub, the only place in Milford Sound that was still open after the flood of tourists ...

A travel blog entry by sfrtw
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... left at 2:30pm. The boat trip was really good but the weather was really bad, so we couldn't really appreciate the beauty of Milford Sound. However the boat crew did say we could come back the next day if the weather was better and have another trip for ...

A travel blog entry by shonandgraham
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