Tag: new zealand
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081 | Windows :: Hobbiton, New Zealand, 2012
I’ve read all the books and seen all the movies, but I’m ashamed that until I got to New Zealand, I did not know that this was the land where most of the LoTR filming took place. Although it was not on our original itinerary, by the time we got close to Matamata, our close…
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018 | Flora :: Lake Wanaka, New Zealand, 2012
I almost forgot about the Wanaka Tree. I wish I could say it was my idea to climb the tree, but it wasn’t. A few of us were on a walk around the lake and stopped by a swing set. As the rest of us monkeyed around the tree on shore, Manon decided that she…
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017 | Flora :: Mirror Lakes, New Zealand, 2012
On my second day in New Zealand, I made a koru necklace out of cow bone at a studio in Coromandel, and wore it on the rest of my journey. The word koru means “loop” in Maori. It comes from the shape of a new leaf, that would slowly unfurl into the silver tree fern adorning…