The four-hour 180 mile trip from Queenstown to Milford Sound must take some beating - through plains, by lakes, up and down mountainsides, through gorges and valleys across rivers and streams and then through the most bizarre tunnel a few miles before the Sound itself.Homer’s Tunnel is just under a mile long and was cut straight through the mountainside. It is the same width as it has always been - strictly single carriageway and just big enough for today’s tourist buses for which it was definitely not designed.
The ceiling is the original rock and lighting is rudimentary. A traffic light controls the flow but if you are unlucky it could be quite a wait.
All in all an amazing ride (with an excellent driver,/commentator/guide called Bruce) much of it through areas designated World Heritage Sites, which I now learn cover 20 per cent of New Zealand. Another quick stat there are 38 million sheep in the country, 11 million cattle and 1.2 million deer. Humans? About 4.3 million. Dave
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