Tours PH | Why Visit New Zealand When Travel Is Permitted | New Zealand is blessed with an abundance of stunning scenery, kind and fun-loving people, a plethora of things to see and do, delectable food and wine, and an atmosphere unlike any other in the world.
1. Stunning bodies of water
Waterbodies in New Zealand range in hue from icy blue and turquoise to teal and azure. There are an incredible 4,25,000 kilometers of rivers and streams, 4,000 lakes, and more than 200 underground aquifers.
The administration’s major concerns include preserving their inherent character, maintaining indigenous flora and fauna, and enabling the country’s indigenous people, the Maori, to maintain customary relationships to their ancestral water.
Each waterbody is treated with the highest love, respect, and care due to its tremendous tourism potential, recreational potential, and economic promise. The result is picture-perfect vistas that should be on the bucket list of any travel enthusiast.
2. High-altitude country, tamed wildness
The sky hangs large and startlingly low over beech forests hedged in giant fern; stands of pine act as windbreaks; massive trees are contorted into intricate shapes by the force of powerful gales blowing in from the Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea; and shrub-like gorse and heather bloom bright yellow and deep purple.
New Zealand’s indigenous forest covers around 6.4 million hectares, almost all on the South Island. Prior to human settlement, the majority of Kiwi nation was forested, but today, forests are being massively replanted where necessary, and responsible ecotourism is affecting and disciplining the immense wilderness.
3. Culture of the Maori
Maori tribes have been resettled, apologized to, and integrated into all aspects of New Zealand life, from parliament seats to mainstream jobs in both the public and commercial sectors. Every establishment in Kiwiland proudly displays its Maori name, Maori handicrafts sell (very well), and tourists are greeted with the Maori greeting kia ora. This is indeed heartening at a time when indigenous peoples over the world are being segregated, ghettoized, neglected, and repressed.
Between 1250 and 1300 CE, Polynesian settlers came in New Zealand and created their own culture, language, mythology, crafts, and performance arts. Europeans arrived in the seventeenth century. While interactions between the Maori and the newcomers began amicably, land issues quickly escalated into conflict. However, since 1999, concerted efforts have been made to create a more inclusive society and to guarantee that Maori, who now account for 14.9% of the population, are involved in all aspects of New Zealand life and culture.
4. Remembrances of the past
Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War was created in 2015 by New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, in collaboration with Weta Workshop, a design and special effects studio.
This long-running crowd-pleaser guides visitors through the labyrinths of that misguided World War I campaign as a memorial to the valiant Anzac (short for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) warriors who perished in battle. New Zealand also pays tribute to its war heroes through statues, bridges, and over 1,000 war museums.
Gallipoli descendants Lone Pine trees, named after the lone survivor of the Gallipoli conflict, are planted as WWI memorials. Anzac Day, marked on 25 April, is a day of remembrance for those who died while serving their country. On this day, one can find as many young individuals as older people paying their respects with love and enthusiasm.
5. Delectable meals and beverages
Lamb and beef chunks that melt in the mouth; mussels, whitebait, and crayfish; dark, ambrosial chocolate; herb-infused hard and soft cheeses; the sharply sweet flavor of the kumara (New Zealand’s incredible sweet potato); hokey-pokey ice cream—vanilla ice cream with honeycomb pieces; meringue-based pavlova, which New Zealand claims as its own invention; Pinots and Sauvignons from Marlborough country
The truth is, one could visit Kiwiland solely for the food and beverages!
