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Milford Sound——The Wonder World

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We booked Jucy Milford Sound Cruise from groupon
which is a one day trip including all transport but not lunch.

Milford Sound

Milford Sound is a geographical phenomena caused by glacier.
After a long long time, the higher river bank become grass field while the lower river bank covered by sea.
One of the speciality is a mountain strike up to 1500m from sea level.
There are also a lot 100+m height waterfalls.

Milford Sound

The cruise tour will bring you along the 12km mountain sea,
Cruise you in front of the waterfall,
Take a chance to watch seal, penguin, dolphin or whale.
Some of the cruise will stay overnight at the middle of sea.

Another speciality over here is the weather. 200+ day out of a year in cloudy or raining.

There is another place call doubtful sound which share the same speciality with Milford sound, but it’s more nature.
In order to keep its original state, whoever want to visit must follow a cruise tour, then change to land transport then finally take a cruise again.
It’s impossible to reach there by driving ourself.

Around 9am, we departed from Queenstown.
The driver actively share the interesting point along the 4 hour journey:

Knot Flat, a grass field surrounded by the mountain, an image normally found on the postcard.

Milford Sound

Mirror Lake, if compared to Lake Matheson, Lake Matheson is better.

Milford Sound

The Driver suggest that this stream water is drinkable, and will keep us young forever.

Milford Sound

The Chasm

Milford Sound

Look like we have an unlucky day, cloudy weather over here.

Milford Sound

It’s time for the cruise!

Milford Sound

The captain introduce every single waterfall, geographical fact, history, mountain along the cruise

The captain also gave us a cold waterfall shower.
If it’s not winter and I have an extra cloth, I think I’ll join the shower too.

Milford Sound

When the cruise went almost the estuary, we spotted some seal.
And Thanks God a Tawaki penguin is hunting fish!

Milford Sound

Tawaki Penguin is one of the rarest penguin in the world, the hardest to spot and only found in NZ.
Their speciality is they live in bush, that’s why the we only can spot them in a few nature place.

The cruise took about 3 hours and mostly is watching waterfall.

Milford Sound

More Picture

For the return trip, we have a movie called The World’s Fastest Indian

In my opinion, the journey to Milford Sound is much more interesting than Milford Sound itself, but you have to explore some of them by yourself but not following the tour.
For example you’ll not reached Walk Wire if you following the tour.

If not because winter (with icy road), I will choose to drive myself over there.
Besides, My very original plan is take the 4D3N Routeburn Track from Queenstown to Milford sound.
It’s spoiled by winter spoiled too.

For nature lover, I suggest that never follow tour for this trip.
Because you’ll be surprise how beautiful this place is!

旅游

Queenstown——旅游之城

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去了Queenstown的缩小版Wanaka，我们的下一站是南岛的明珠，旅游之城——Queenstown本身。

我们首先到周边小镇：

不论是Arrowtown，Glenorchy，都是以秋景出名。
而Cromwell就是所谓的樱桃小镇，而樱桃（Cherry）是纽西兰打工度假最好捞的一块金。（算是薪水最高）

薪水：>15 NZD/小时 +吃不完的樱桃

到了Queenstown，我们总共住了两间YHA，Central 和 Lake。
虽然Lake离市区远了一点，不过它有泊车位，而且环境也没有central复杂。
所以在这里推荐Queenstown Lakefront YHA.

到了Queesntown，基本上什么都是“出名”的贵东西。
就连汽油价也是纽西兰最贵的。

其中打工度假最常做的就是爬上Gondola然后做免费的缆车下来。这样就能省下30 NZD 的Gondola Skyline.

我选择早上顺着越野单车的路往上爬（要小心单车），大概1小时就可以到Gondola欣赏美景。
当然你也可以用省下的钱去玩Luge（Go-cart）。
不过必须在下午之前赶上缆车，因为下午就会有警卫在那里查票。

接下来，就是超大粒的汉堡包（FregBurger）。其实纽西兰有很多出名的Burger如Burger Fuel，不过这一家生在旅游之城，因此名气也比较大。
不过味道也真材实料的～

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价格：>10NZD

再来是-5度酒吧（minus 5 ice bar）。这里还有另一家叫 below zero ice bar。其实两件都差不多，不过刚好这一家在bookme有减价，所以我们就选定了这一家。

价格：12NZD/Entrance + Vodka Cocktail
去前要记得预约（如果从bookme订）和带你的护照哦～

如果你有钱，这里还有好多活动让你玩如：
纽西兰最高的蹦极跳
全世界第一个蹦极跳
跳飞机
快艇
购物礼品，因为有竞争，这里的选择比较多，价格也较便宜。
这里的二手店也都是名牌货，有的像新的一样。
更多详情可以到i-site去问，当然最重要的是有钱～

如果你计划在这里玩完纽西兰的一切，不要忘记提早到Book Me或Groupon寻找特价配套。

另外，这里也是去Milford Sound的出发点，虽然说Te Anau比较近。不过这里比较容易找团，也比较多选择。
关于Milford Sound请看这里。

这就是纽西兰旅游之城。

在Queenstown如果有钱，这里不怕不够你玩！

也在Queenstown，我和我的旅伴们分开了。
谢谢你们一路上陪着我走过这些路！

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Travel

Queenstown——City of Travel

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After Wanaka, we’re now in the City of Travel in NZ

First, let’s we visited some village around Queenstown.

For Arrowtown and Glenorchy, both of them famous with it’s autumn scene. Unfortunately we’re already winter.
For Cromwell, it’s the Cherry village, which also know as the highest paid job among NZWH.

Paid: >15 NZD/hour + unlimited cherry supply.

At Queenstown, we stayed both, Central and Lakefront
I strongly suggest Queenstown Lakefront YHA because it have parking space, better environment then central. However, it have some distance to the city central.

In general, everything in Queenstown is “famous” with money.
Even petrol, they ranked at highest price.

What NZWHer always do if climb up Gondola and take the free skyline down the hill. This saved me 30 NZD for the the skyline trip.

I departed early in the morning and took the MTB track.
The track had nothing much to see and took about 1 hour but the reward is the amazing view at the top of Gondola.

If you wish, you can spent the money you saved for the Luge over here. The only thing you have to take note is catch the skyline before afternoon, they’ll check ticker during afternoon.

Next is the super duper Big buger, FregBurger. In fact, there are a few nice burger in NZ such as Burger Fuel. What make Fregburger so special is because it born in Queenstown, easier to brand.
However, the taste is Good, of course.

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Price: >10 NZD

Again is the minus 5 ice bar. There is another bar called below zero ice bar. Both of them is almost same (according my friend, minus 5 maybe bigger) but minus 5 have discount on Bookme during our visit. That’s the reason why we chose it.

Price: 12 NZD / Entrance + Vodka Cocktail
And remember bring your pass and make booking if you buy from bookme

There’re still a lot “famous” activity for you to enjoy:

如果你有钱，这里还有好多活动让你玩如：
NZ Highest Bungee Jump
World First Bungee Jump
Sky Dive
Jet Boat
Shopping. Price and cheaper and more variety due to competition.
You can found a lot cheap, branded, almost brand new stuff at second hand shop over here.

If you decided to spend you saving over Queenstown, remember to check Book Me or Groupon for the Best Price.

Aside that, Queenstown is also the starting point for Milford sound. You can find more tour package compared to Te Anau.
More information about Milford Sound.

That the end about travel city in NZ.

Don’t Worry, there are enough fun for you to spend all your saving in Queenstown.

Lastly, it’s time to say thank you and good bye to my travel mates!
Already miss the journey we gone through last 2 weeks.

Travel Mate