Next destination? :)

As I said in an earlier post, I love travelling, so when I got asked to write about a country I would like to visit is quite difficult to pick. Three years ago I was very lucky because I got the opportunity to do an exchange year. So, for 10 months I lived in Germany. There, I traveled as much as I could, visiting many of countries that I have dreamt about since I was a kid; England, Italy, France, Hungary, etc. However, as ambitious as I am, now I really wish to visit New Zealand. Why so far? Maybe that is one of the reason, is quite far. But mostly, there lives a very dear friend of mine. Her name is Anita and she was hosted by my family during her exchange year in Chile on 2009. We became very close and we still write and send e-mails to each other. Before her I didn’t know too much about her country, but after her I learnt a lot of it.

The landscapes and weather are very similar to the center-south of Chile (you can easily see that if you watch The Lord of the Rings movie), but being New Zealand two island so far away from the continent resulted in a wide spectrum of species that you can only found there. Also I found very interesting that the country is geographically divided in two islands.

Because New Zealand was a British colony, they have a lot of british culture; scones, driving on the left side, “good saves the Queen”, and so on. But before the brits, the Maories used to inhabit these two islands, what resulted in a “cultural blend”, that is still going in our days.

I need to find an excuse to go there and finally meet Anita’s family, visit Wellington, Auckland, the south island. Do some trekking around the many valley and volcanoes that they have. Take me pictures with Kiwis (the bird) while eating a kiwi (the fruit), etc. I think that mi ideal would be going there to work for a couple of months, and then, travel around for a few more months. And not just travel in NZ, because I would be already quite far from Chile so I should make the most of it and go to Australia, Papua New Guinea, Bali, Taiwan, etc., where ever the wind would take me :)