{"id":14249,"date":"2019-11-05T16:13:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T00:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=14249"},"modified":"2020-01-14T09:57:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:57:41","slug":"new-zealand-still-undiscovered-tourist-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/new-zealand-still-undiscovered-tourist-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand \u2013 A Still Undiscovered Tourist Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14244\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14244\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-1.jpg\" alt=\"grazing sheep, New Zealand\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-1-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center>Photo courtesy of New Zealand Tourist Office<\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Give or take a few, there are 7.1 sheep for every man, woman and child in New Zealand. Or, to put an actual number on it, approximately 30 million of these mostly white colored animals. Does that mean that sheep overwhelm the country? Certainly not, but it does mean you\u2019ll see a lot of them wherever you go there. My first exposure came when we saw field after field full of them, when my wife and I drove to a place that, when we first heard it, sounded like ROTO ROOTER, but is in fact the town of Rotorua.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0history of <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/archive-travel-blanchette-newzealand.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Zealand<\/a>\u00a0dates back approximately 700 years to when it was discovered and settled by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polynesia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Polynesians<\/a>, who developed a distinct\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M%C4%81ori_culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M\u0101ori culture<\/a>. As we quickly found out, you\u2019ll find a lot of weird and wonderful Maori and Polynesian names throughout this gorgeous country.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026And so it was, that on our way to Rotorua, we stopped to experience the magic of the WAITOMO CAVES. The best way to do this, is by taking a boat tour where you\u2019ll discover an ancient, mystical world 300 million years in the making. Brigitte, my wife and I, were mesmerized by this extraordinary attraction, and it made us both feel as if we\u2019d been transported into a magical world created by Mother Nature\u2019s light display in these caves. The highlight is the starry wonderland of the Glowworm Grotto, where thousands of tiny creatures radiate their unmistakable luminescent light in a subterranean world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14245\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14245\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-2.jpg\" alt=\"Glowworm Grotto\" width=\"850\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-2.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-2-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of New Zealand Tourist Office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Do you research a destination BEFORE you go visit? I do, but not as much as I\u2019d like to, because I love \u201cnatural surprises.\u201d Well, as we approached Rotorua, our nostrils were besieged by the most appalling bad eggs aroma you can imagine. Awful does not even come close to describing it.<\/p>\n<p>Fear not, good traveling friends, as this smell comes from a region that is rich with geothermal\u00a0sulphur activity, that produces bewitching throbbing geysers\u00a0and bubbling mud pools that dot the landscape. And yes, when you see, up close and VERY personal, these effervescing and gurgling mud pools they are, if nothing else, a photographer\u2019s delight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14246\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14246\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-3.jpg\" alt=\"bubbling mud pool\" width=\"850\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-3.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-3-600x431.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-3-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-3-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-3-104x74.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of New Zealand Tourist Office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The longer we stayed in this most scenically beautiful country, the more intrigued we became with the Maori culture, and our visit to the Maori Cultural Center in Rotorua, gave us a marvelous insight into the Maoris, their background and proud Heritage.<\/p>\n<p>We were riveted by an awe-inspiring display of local customs, particularly the Maori Greeting. Called a <em>hongi<\/em> it\u2019s a traditional\u00a0M\u0101ori greeting and is done by pressing one&#8217;s nose and forehead (<em>at the same time)<\/em> to another person at an encounter. &#8230; In\u00a0M\u0101ori\u00a0legend, woman was created by the gods moulding her shape out of the earth. The god T\u0101ne (meaning\u00a0male) embraced the figure and breathed into her nostrils.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14247\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14247\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-4-5.jpg\" alt=\"display of Maori customs\" width=\"850\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-4-5.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-4-5-600x212.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-4-5-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-4-5-768x271.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos courtesy of New Zealand Tourist Office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Working, as we both did for Continental <em>Airlines (my wife as a flight\u00a0 attendant and I was manager of publicity)<\/em> we both sought out romantic getaways in our worldwide travels, and we knew we wanted to also go to the South Island and take the <em>SS Earnslaw<\/em> classic, red funnel Swiss look alike steamer cruise in Queenstown. Even though we could have flown there, we decided \u2013 and thank goodness we did \u2013 to take the Interisland ferry from Wellington in the North Island, to Picton in the <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/archive-travel-wendy-southislandNZ.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14248\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14248\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-6.jpg\" alt=\"the Interisland ferry\" width=\"730\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-6.jpg 730w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-6-600x247.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-6-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of New Zealand Tourist Office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This classic ferry is the longest running Cook Strait\u00a0ferry\u00a0service in NZ, and has become known as one of the most beautiful\u00a0ferry\u00a0journeys in the world. Indeed, New Zealanders will proudly tell you it is one of\u00a0New Zealand&#8217;s\u00a0most iconic tourism experiences \u2013 we found it to be all that and more, as well as being romantic. Journey time is a relaxing 3 hours, but if the weather is \u201cnot very good,\u201d it could take additional 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to New Zealand, even so called <em>\u201cjaded travelers who\u2019ve been there and done that,\u201d<\/em> must be impressed not only by the stunning beauty of the country, and its phenomenal diversity, but also the equally amazing stunning array of things to see and do. An outstanding example of that, is Queenstown.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really NZ&#8217;s answer to Switzerland. There are two \u201cthings\u201d you must do here. One is to take Shotover Jet boat trip \u2013 this is where you get in a luxury speed boat and zoom and roar along the Shotover River \u2013 but what makes this so special, is that you do it on a river that&#8217;s only a foot or two (or less!) in depth, as your Shotover jet boat roars and soars into the sides of the river banks at top notch speed. Very scary, but tons of fun.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14242\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14242\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-7-8.jpg\" alt=\"writer on the Shotover Jet boat and the SS Earnslaw steamer\" width=\"850\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-7-8.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-7-8-600x212.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-7-8-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zealand-7-8-768x271.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Left: Traveling Boy journalist John Clayton shown (center between letters R and J) on the SHOTOVER JET as it soars and roars in, around and near, the Shotover River bank walls. Right: The SS Earnslaw.<\/span> Photos courtesy of New Zealand Tourist Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14243\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Zeland-Map.gif\" alt=\"New Zeland map\" width=\"540\" height=\"589\" \/>Then too, you must take the classic <em>SS Earnslaw<\/em> steamer on the Lake and visit the Walter Peak sheep farm \u2013 they have trips there that include lunch and a fascinating sheep dog show. We took the evening tour which included dinner. The <em>SS Earnslaw<\/em> trip is unique.<\/p>\n<p>Your trip to New Zealand is a marvelously memorable experience you\u2019ll tell your friends about forever. We hope we\u2019ve intrigued you enough to book a trip to this glorious country, but there are far more places we\u2019d love to tell you about \u2013 perhaps another time. Contact John: <a href=\"mailto:jd******@***il.com\" data-original-string=\"rCW\/5h0UI7GJypfcNLNOEw==8d4xPDlyK\/rychURQxx\/4ZYamhtw66oQXWykEY5eUZL0Ic=\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.\"><span \n                data-original-string='3ZO2NpyDYB\/brNi6bIXwcA==8d4dd+Vk5ePogO1go+voz5pl3HmkX03T2AMiCCHQYm3C0w='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>jd<span class=\"apbct-blur\">******<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">***<\/span>il.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give or take a few, there are 7.1 sheep for every man, woman and child in New Zealand. Or, to put an actual number on it, approximately 30 million of these mostly white colored animals. 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