One day I hope to maybe treck on foot from Te Anau to Milford Sound, if it is anything like the drive there (minus the mass amounts of rain ) it would be an absolutely beautiful hike. Mid morning we hoped on another bus - same bus line but this time with a driver who talked and joked for pretty well the whole 3 hours it took to drive 120 km road through farm fields, rolling hills, sheep pastures, more sheep pastures, by lakes, in and around mountains, by hundreds of waterfalls and through the rainforest. Along the way we stopped at a few ‘tourist destinations’ but they were nothing less than incredible. My favorite was the Chasm - a twenty minute walk in the pouring rain though the rainforest with some pretty sweet views of the river quickly flowing down from the mountains. Our bus driver kindly dropped us off at pretty well the door step of our hostel where we spent the next two nights. Again our hostel had an incredible view of the mountains. The first night we stayed there you could see many streams of water flowing down the side of the mountain due to the sheer mass of rain coming down. By the next morning however only one or two of these waterfalls were left as the rain had stopped and the sun was shinning. It was a perfect day for an cruise, so on a two and a half hour cruise we went though the fiord out to the Tasmen Sea. I don’t even know how to describe it .. I felt so tiny as we went though the mountains soaring high above our heads .. these pictures could never capture the beauty of what we saw and experienced that day...
After two days of exploring Milford Sound we hoped on another bus and headed back through Te Anau and eventually Queenstown..
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| me and the mountains |
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the rainforest |
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| the river outside of our hostel, Milford Lodge |
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| pedestrian crossing |
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| Alison, Emily, Me |
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| on the cruise though the fiord |
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