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Queenstown & Wanaka

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Milford Sound/Piopiotahi is a fiord in the south west of New Zealand's South Island

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Overview

Few people come to Queenstown to wind down. The self-styled 'adventure capital of the world' is a place where visitors come to throw their inhibitions out the window…and throw themselves out of planes and off mountain tops and bridges.

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