Milford Sound (actually a fjord) is near the top of any published list of “must-dos” in NZ. Somewhere from 900,000-1 million tourists visited in recent years. I heard from someone almost 5,000 people cruise the sound each day in peak season. Needless to say it is a busy place. This is true even though it’s […]
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Drive to Te Anau
After the very long stay in Queenstown it felt weird to be packing up! We were all a little sad to say goodbye to our amazing apartment, which none of us will ever forget. After a quick stop to replace my shoes (I wore the same ones about 95% of the time since August!) we […]
Post-lockdown Queenstown Adventures
As our lockdown levels went down, we were finally able to explore a lot more in Queenstown (as well as day trips we’ve already covered). We even ended up staying about a week longer than we “needed” to in Queenstown as we had so many activities that we wanted to do. In the end we […]
Nate’s Review of Queenstown
Food The food in Queenstown was great. There is a insanely good pizza restaurant called Sal’s pizza. There is a great group of restaurants called Ferg something. My favorite one was Ferg Burger. There was another good restaurant called The Boat Shed that had really good fish and chips. Apart from that, we ate at […]
Wanaka and Blue Pools
A few days after our Glenorchy day trip we headed off for another classic trip in the area: Wanaka with the bonus Blue Pools extension. Wanaka is a small tourist town about an hour from Queenstown on the edge of Lake Wanaka. Home to roughly 9,000 residents it’s popular for its local ski resort (not […]
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