Fiordland (what, there are even more stunning places to see!?)

Having visited the southern most part of the New Zealand South Island it was time to turn Vivian to the right and begin our journey north again. We swear that Vivian drove with a spring in her step when she realised that we were heading towards 'home'!  ;-)

On the way north, and our next destination being the Fiordland, we had to stop at a little town which is 'famous' for its sausages. It appears they won a competition ages ago but are still trying to make a buck from it - needless to say, the sausages were a dissapointment.

We should stop reading the guide book - next stop, enroute to the Fiordlands, was to visit a cave system which you could walk un-guided for nearly 2 km's underground. It was quite spooky to be alone in such a system and some of the water holes we had to navigate were, as well as being very cold, were extremely deep. As always, we survived to write it on the blog!

Another unplanned stop was Lake Monowai. Somehow it seems like we will end up spending much more time on the South Island than we initially thought. There are just too many lovely places...! :-)

At last, we arrived in the stunning Fiordland region of New Zealand! This place is just amazing, but of course this also means that it is a tourist mecca. 

Therefore we had to get creative on how we could get the Milford Sound to ourselves... So, with a really wet night we headed up the 100km one-way road to Milford and slept in Vivian a short drive away. With a 6am alarm we jumped straight into the driving seat and felt like we had pretty much the whole place to ourselves....

Peaceful and quite Milford Sound right after sunrise

Beautiful early morning cruise through Milford Sound



Lots of dolphins having fun in the sea. Some people pay lots of money for a dolphin tour, we got it all inclusive ;-)

It was a lovely feeling to see all the tourist busses heading into Milford Sounds as we sat down for a well deserved lunch as we were leaving ... Result!!!

Without knowing we ended up at a little glacier when we went for a walk. How crazy is this?! :-)