NZ Day 8: Milford Sound

Okay, I have to admit that I’ve been too lazy to finish the NZ posts series. Right now I’m in Beijing already, I left my notes of NZ at my house, so basically I’m gonna finish the NZ posts based on my memory only. Well, I think I’m just gonna post some pictures hahaha. For the record, I didn’t take all the pictures by myself (have I mentioned it before?), credits of the pictures goes to Fey and Jae. 

We started early from Queenstown to Milford Sound. It took about 3 hours drive to reach Milford Sound. Since we didn’t plan to stay overnight in Milford Sound, we took off early in the morning.

On the way to our destination, you can see beautiful scenery around you. For me personally, the road to Milford Sound offers many beautiful scenery, which are more beautiful than Milford Sound itself haha. The three hours ride offers you scenery from sheep, snow, mountain, and forest. 

 The view is like playing scenery screensaver on your computer

 

On the middle of our trip, we found this beautiful lake named Mirror Lake. Just like its name, the water is so clear; you can see the reflection of the snowed mountain on the water. Breathtakingly beautiful.

 Mirror mirror on the lake, who’s the fairest of them all?

Finally we reached Milford Sound. There, we need to take a cruise ship to see the view of Milford Sound. The trip was around forty five minutes or so (forgive my bad memory). There are many cruise line there, but we chose the Jucy Cruise, because they offers us ‘buy one get one’ ticket if we rent their vehicles. That time, the ticket price was NZD75 per person. We showed our Jucy car key, and we paid NZD150 for 4 tickets – of course one is not used, only three of us anyway.

Milford Sound was acclaimed as NZ’s most famous tourist destination. You can see some rocks and waterfalls from the boat. You can even spot some seals having a nap (what a life they have!) .It was beautiful there, but I like Mount Cook more than Milford Sound :p

Can you spot the seal?

Around 3 p.m.-ish the cruise is over, it’s time for us to go back to Queenstown, the three (almost four) hours’ drive back is very tiring. Oh ya, there’s only one small coffee shop/ restaurant near the cruise port, which means you don’t have many choice of food, so better if you keep your belly full before coming here (or bring your own lunch and dinner).

For me, it’s the road back to Queenstown is quite scary because it’s getting dark, as in very dark on the road, there’s nothing you can see outside your window since there’s no light outside. Luckily we reached Queenstown safely at night (phew..)