Te Anua and Milford

After Wanaka we headed south to Te Anua, the starting point of the Kepler track and many other trips and attractions in the Fiordland area. During our three nights stay there we encounter some bad weather (rain and some snow) for the first time in New Zealand. On the first day there we just hanged out (pool & beer night) at the town which was much nicer than we had expected. On the second day we hiked a bit (we did the beginning of the Kepler track) it was nice except for the sand-flies, for those of you who never been to New Zealnd, sand-flies are small annoying flies that looks like “barchashim”, they have a painful bite and they are totally unaware of the fact that they are suppose to be repelled by pest repelling products (we have three different kinds!).

The day after that we drove (about 2 hours) to Milford, a small village (about 200 people) on the edge of Milford Sound (for the common people, a Sound is very similar to a Fiord). Milford Sound is considered one of New Zealand’s prettiest places and the Milford track requires booking a half a year in advance, since we only started trying to book it about a month ago it was already fully booked. What we ended up doing was a two and a half hours cruise along the sound. It was VERY pretty! It is impossible to capture such beauty with a camera but God knows we tried.

Now we are back in Queenstown, we plan on staying here for the next three days. Tomorrow morning we are going for an extreme downhill bike ride with some bike adventure company, the course is suppose to be very extreme and we hope we are up for the challenge.

We posted some new pictures, check them out.

Gali & Doron