Milford

Turbulence In Paradise

During his visit to the colonies in 1861, Rudyard Kipling described New Zealand’s Milford Sound as the eighth Advisor judged it the wonder of the world. A decade ago, Trip Advisor judged it the world’s top travel destination.

Visitors to this remote and raindrenched pocket of the world heritage status Fiordland National Park, in the south-west of the South Island, succumb quickly to superlative overload when describing the sound’s panoramic grandeur – its carpet of beech and rain forests, razorback peaks and waterfalls tumbling over granite cliffs into the inky sound. It is sometimes called a fiord but is, in fact, an inlet from the Tasman Sea carved by glaciers 100,000 years ago.