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Published: April 20th 2005
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We spent two days in
Manapouri so that we could visit two of New Zealand's famous Fiords.
On Friday, we drove up to
Milford Sound along a spectacular two-hour road into the wilderness.
On Saturday, we took a cruise across Lake Manapouri, a 4x4 bus across a seriously rocky mountain pass and then spent the day on a catamaran on
Doubtful Sound (so called, because when Captain Cook first set eyes on the fiord from the Tasman sea he refused to enter on the grounds that he was "doubtful" that he would ever manage to sail his ship out again). The highlight of our day was spotting a group of bottlenose dolphins as well as another, rarely seen, Albatross.
That night we drove onto Queenstown...
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