Witness the Sounds of New Zealand
Sydney’s Harbour Bridge and the iconic Opera House slowly recede as Cunard’s majestic Queen Elizabeth sets a course across the Tasman Sea, bound for Aotearoa - ‘Land of the Long White Cloud’. From the subtropical North Island to
the serene South Island, New Zealand is a dreamland that manifestly lives up to the hype. Fiordland National Park is renowned for its breathtaking collection of fiords, which, ironically, are mostly named as sounds. Luscious South Island’s
Milford Sound is Fiordland’s masterpiece. A day spent navigating these chasms is to voyage into nirvana. With Victorian and Edwardian buildings at every turn, Dunedin revels in its Scottish heritage, nowhere more so than the Gothic-Revival Larnach Castle and Gardens. There are tours to the Royal Albatross Centre at the tip of the Otago Peninsula to see the majestic white birds at close range. At nearby Penguin Place Conservation Reserve, boat trips take visitors to see colonies of the little
green rainforest clings to glacier-carved granite peaks; and waterfalls cascade into shimmering lakes. Doubtful Sound - also called the ‘Sound of Silence’ - is the deepest; but the narrow
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