Up until now, I found that the landscape of New Zealand was good, not great. I could find even more dramatic rock formations at home in the national parks of California, mainly Yosometie. Milford sound, on the other hand, is as stunning as any land formation I’ve ever seen.
A “sound”, also known as a “fiord” or “fjord” is characterized as a narrow sea inlet, surrounded by steep sides. Situated at the southern western coast of New Zealand, this place looks like it is something out of pre-historic times. It looks like King Kong is going to be spotted, climbing around like an insignificant ant.
These cliffs stretched a mile out of the sea. It was a sunken mountain range. Absolutely spectacular.
The Movie does this place no justice at all, but I thought I would make some sort of attempt.
This was my first excursion from Queenstown and It unfortunately was with a tour bus full of old timers. Theese old fogies were constant reminders that my timing could not have been better. You will hear my earitiation with them in the video. At every step, they would jostle around like sheep, making the experience ever so tedious. We began to run off the bus at every stop in order the beat the crowd and experience the beauty before the old folks came and ruined it.
On the way back we were persuaded to take a plane ride that would take 1 hour instead of sitting on the buss for another 4. We are indeed, flash packers.
“A flash packer is a backpacker with money”. It’s the guy who brings his laptop with him on the trip. It’s the guy who sleeps in a twin room instead of a 12 man dorm because he doesnt care about the extra $4 he could have saved. Yes I am guilty. But the devide between backpacker and vacationer is vast. There has to be a flashpacker class. Maybe in the end of my trip I will down grade, but for now, I’m here to enjoy myself, not starve myself 
Can I donate to your NOT doing another hang gliding?