Today was our most expensive activity, Discover More with Go Milford, but it was actually the best value. The trip was a total of nine hours: 5.5 hrs. of a narrated bus trip, 2.5 hour narrated cruise on Milford Sound, which included a wonderful buffet lunch, and 45 minutes at the Milford Deep Underwater Observatory.We were picked up by our tour company, Go Milford, at 8:15 at our campground and driven 121 km to Milford Sound. The Milford Road heads into the Sout...

Before leaving town in a sparkling clean van this morning, we visited Queenstown Gardens which are located on a promontory into Lake Wakatipu. The Gardens were founded in 1867 so the trees are now enormous and include oaks and massive sequoias. We walked around town and window-shopped and then headed south. We followed beautiful Lake Wakatipu for 40 minutes to Kingston, situated at the southernmost end of the lake. It is a great place for water sports, but it...