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Just Where Are The Victoria Falls? - Somewhere Around Tauranga I Believe? Or Why Do Kiwis Often Ignore Their Own Beautiful And Diverse Country?
While the title above may seem perhaps odd and somewhat irrelevant, it is taken from an advertisement shown on NZ television quite a while ago. It is concerned with the tendency of travelers from NZ to ignore the wonderful destinations available within the confines of their own beautiful and diverse country.
Encompassing the wonderful stone structures of south Canterbury and Southland to the Unique and delicate Beech forests of the West Coast; to the broad sandy beaches of Northland, the secure sandy coves of the East Coast; to the grandeur of the looming, sometimes snow covered slopes, of the active volcano which is Mt Ruapehu. The night life of the biggest cities contrast with the comparatively placid rural existences lived by the people within half a day easy drive from the centre of these bubbling metropolis.
The roads are almost entirely sealed now, although unsealed and less frequented ways with evocative titles still exist. The 'forgotten highway' which travels from Taranaki into the Ruapehu District is one particular such example. The 'Bridge to nowhere' is New Zealand's monument to the rugged and challenging terrain of the central North Island. Even this small land nestled in the South Pacific, after almost four hundred years of human habitation, there are still generally untraveled tracts of land to be found.
Wooden churches and stone stores from a colonial past still exist. With history textbooks in hand, one is able to still visit the carved wooden grave markers of the very participants within those same pages. Having studied NZ's heritage in my time at university, such physical markers give substance to the languid advancement of time in locations of this land, my homeland, New Zealand.
Referring again, to the essence meant in the title, I will inform you, the visitor, that as a teenager, myself and my close friend cycled many of the roads and byways of this beautiful and diverse country. I am assured that I have at least a cursory appreciation of this land. In earlier years, my experiences as a boy scout saw me hiking about the old tram tracks and logging skids of mining and forestry operations at Wairongomai. Now, as it certainly was then, bush covered and less than 'easy going' terrain. The people that moulded a state from this wilderness which was pre-colonial NZ were indeed of hardy stock. Often the settlers were military veterans and families of the Victorian Empire's conquests all-around the globe. They were not unaccustomed to discipline and physical labour.
It can easily, be seen, that New Zealand has vast scope of appeal for the adventure seeking and those wishing to experience an exciting, and not too distant, history. You can be having breakfast in a cafe near the shores of the great Lake Taupo in the morning, and be skiing the slopes of Ruapehu before lunch. You can be browsing historical documents in a provincial museum in one of many townships around the country, then, that same night be dancing the night away in a popular night club in one of the main city centres.
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