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Milford Sound Scenic Flights: the best four hours of my life and a trip that every Kiwi should do.
In this series, Stuff Travel investigates how places came to be known for certain things and whether those “bold claims” are valid. Milford Sound is often touted as the eighth wonder of the world, but is it really? Not officially, no. But it arguably should be. The original “Seven Wonders of the World” generated a lot of buzz back in the second century BC, and Greek engineer Philo of Byzantium categorised them in a 250BC book aptly entitled
On the Seven Wonders.