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Milford sound, a ten-mile-long fjord that served as a Lord of the Rings backdrop, is the magnum opus of the south Island’s landscape spectaculars. Mitre peak is to the left, and Bowen falls is one of its hundreds of waterfalls. To best experience it, go in the southern hemisphere’s summer.










