Tolin's 2024 World Cruise blog posts, Days 30-33 Feb 8-11, 2024, Milford & Doubtful Sounds, NZ
Milford Sound is a fiord in the south west of New Zealand's South Island within Fiordland National Park , Piopiotahi (Milford Sound) Marine Reserve , and the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage site. It has been judged the world's top travel destination in an international survey (the 2008 Travelers' Choice Destinations Awards by TripAdvisor) and is acclaimed as New Zealand's most famous tourist destination. Rudyard Kipling called it the eighth Wonder of the World . The fiord is most commonly accessed via road ( State Highway 94 ) by tour coach, with the road terminating at a small village also called Milford Sound . Milford Sound runs 20 miles inland from the Tasman Sea at Dale Point (also named after a location close to Milford Haven in Wales)—the mouth of the fiord—and is surrounded by sheer rock faces that rise 3,900 feet or more on either side. A...