Fly from Brisbane to New Zealand, with narrow airports, like the train stations of domestic fifth-tier cities.
The line to receive your boarding pass is lined up in a nineteen-eighteen-bend line. There are many large canvas bags in the procession that are more than one inch long and slowly move forward with the owner, what is this?
When you get to the workbench, the mystery is solved.
A thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy opened a canvas bag to get something, and I saw the surfboard inside, and the smaller one behind his dad, not knowing whether the bigger and more occupied guy was a surfboard or a small sailboat. Airplanes are weight-charged, like this, plus not add money?
I won the least baggage award for this team. Tigers go down the mountain with a skin, and the others can be less or less.
Arrived in Oakland at one o'clock in the middle of the night, got out of the airport, and saw a piece of confetti flying in the corner. After all, it is a small country, how can it be compared to Australia.
I was wrong. The next morning came out, the sun was bright and pure, the sky was as blue as water, and the heavens and the earth were clean and transparent as if there were nothing.
We're going to Rotorua and see The Maori village.
Out of the city, I suddenly burst into blood, happy to shout, want to jump, want to hit the head - New Zealand's grassland, stretching continuously, straight to the sky... Like the wheat fields that thrive in March, like a huge new blanket, covering the flat land, the hills, the eyes and the distance, the forest is just the right embellishment, and the cattle and sheep are like stars in the sky.
It is said that the grasslands of New Zealand's North Island account for 72% of the total land area.
All the way to the south, the road is flat, there are no words, signs, slogans, advertisements, posters, no road guardrails, no street trees, green plant barriers, and very few vehicles. After running for half a day, four hours to be precise, I saw two people.
It is sparsely populated. The entire new Zealand is 270,000 square kilometers and 3.54 million people. Make a comparison: Xi'an has more than 7 million people, twice as many as it does. Baoji is almost the same. Fewer people and more land, not rich and not beautiful is strange.
Pastures are divided into blocks with fences or bushes, and cattle and sheep eat grass piece by piece, which is conducive to the growth and recovery of grass.
The tour guide said that there were herds of deer in the woods and there were many of them.
A herd of deer was fenced around, thought to be artificially bred, and the tour guide said they were unlucky eggs. New Zealand, like Australia, does not have natural enemies of herbivores such as jackals, tigers and leopards, and deer breed quickly, and every year dogs and helicopters must be used to randomly drive out a certain number of deer to slaughter, so as not to cause more deer and destroy vegetation. This herd of deer is ready to die, it is really painful, do I take a pet to go?
Pregnant doves cannot be killed, including ewes and cows. Here, women and children are treated well. We encouraged Lao Hu to have a sex reassignment surgery and stay here for a long time.
New Zealand herders have money, each family has one or two thousand acres of pasture and a large number of cattle and sheep, the income is about 10 million or 20 million, RMB, the national protection policy is good, the product quality and market are stable, and the income is guaranteed.
The task of cattle and sheep is to eat and grow.
They are very well-behaved, very good at taking care of themselves, obeying the regular schedule, and automatically queuing up at three o'clock in the afternoon to go home to milk the cows. I saw flocks of sheep coming home in an orderly manner. With a milking machine, manual work has long been Ott.
Merchants collect milk regularly every afternoon and dare not delay. Some time ago, due to power outages, dairy products could not be produced, and were forced to dump, losing tens of millions of New Zealand dollars, but the loss was paid by the state, and farmers did not suffer losses.
They are not only rich, but also leisurely. The tour guide made a bet with us that you wouldn't see a single person in the four-hour drive. He was wrong, we were "unlucky" to see two herders, and when we came back, we saw another one. I guessed hard, what are the herders doing at home? Counting money?
We took a nap in the town of Matamata, a memorable place name, and in turn pronounced "" town.
Since entering Australia and New Zealand, it is difficult to see the bare land, and I have forgotten what the soil looks like.
I wasn't disappointed, but when it was almost time to get to Rotorua, there were more than a dozen pieces of renovated and leveled land that allowed us to relive the color of the soil, and the tour guide said that it was updating the pasture.
In 1642, the Dutch explorer Tasman landed on the South Island of New Zealand, he was lucky, not good, the New World found, but the language is not understood, the customs do not understand, the fierce Maori attacked his crew, the four crew members were grilled and eaten. The place is named "Killing Bend".
On the second landing, he did his homework, taking in a Maori boy in advance, familiarizing him with the life of civilized society, and then acting as a medium translator before being gradually accepted by the indigenous people.
Maori eat people more than 200 years ago.
Resources are scarce, food is scarce, primitive Maori live a life of cannibalism, and the island is plagued by years-round wars.
Seeing Mao Da is the highlight of New Zealand tourism.
Mao Da refers to the big stage of Maori song and dance performances, in the village where Maori people gather.
After the ghost checked the tickets, a blue mark was placed on the back of each person's left hand, and we had an ominous sale of slaves and livestock.
The village is not small, and the auditorium of the performance is colorful. The stage is being performed, the men's faces are painted with patterns, tall and fit, full of strength, the women are beautiful and strong, wearing beautiful grass skirts, the dance is simple, the singing is beautiful, especially the harmony, like a natural sound, we are fascinated. But the only words that can be heard clearly are "Oops, Oops, Ha-Ha", what does it mean? From the tour guide, I learned that these people were all from the class, not the improvised grass bench team.
The muscular man on the right side of the stage is the most eye-catching, he sings and dances, and he keeps sticking out his tongue, and I thought he was naughty.
The song stopped dancing, and the Maori signaled that it was time to take a group photo. We squeezed over, and the Maori lifted their spears and extended their tongues, making an assassination attempt above the photographer's head. It turns out that sticking out the tongue means to welcome guests. We are all studious people, and after reading the meaning, we immediately respond and greet with our tongues out.
Really, in the future, I spit out my tongue, don't get me wrong, I am welcoming you yet.
Behind the auditorium is the village committee, where the village officials work, and no visits are allowed.
In the shade on the left was a splendid warship, made of a piece of wood, narrow and slender, very similar to the appearance of a dragon boat, two people side by side, able to carry fifty or sixty people. On the right is the granary.
In ancient times, Māori people had an average life expectancy of only 30 years, supposedly because they ate silver.
Silver is the food of dinosaurs, the living fossils of the plant kingdom. I've seen it in the mangroves, like a giant umbrella cover. Eating silver can cause Maori people to suffer from gingivitis, and the gums will fester and eventually they will not be able to eat, and they will be starved to death. Stupid! Why not eat minced meat?
Intermarri marriage between European immigrants and Māori has become widely accepted, and it is now difficult to find purebred Māori. For example, those handsome men and beautiful women in the song and dance performance, without introduction, I still put it
Thought the British.
The Maori huts are all made of thick logs, three meters high, and the entrance door is bent, and the black hole hole does not have a window, and the space inside is very small.
Māori treat women as possessions, plundering them recklessly and giving birth frequently to maintain their population, but women also have eye-popping sexual freedom, with a woman having more than 20 sexual partners. Māori so generous? Tolerate such a number of green hats?
The Maori flag is dyed with human blood and hangs high in the middle of the village.
I heard that scientists have found in Maori ancestry that its DNA is very similar to that of Taiwanese people, and perhaps we are still relatives.
There is a Maori wood carving factory in the village, and the works are simple and exquisite, and the price is not cheap. They are ingenious, using sisal to weave grass skirts, households and bags, flexible and durable, beautiful and stylish, especially grass skirts, which are very suitable for women with beautiful curves, exuberant personalities and revealing desires. I wanted to buy one, turned around a few times, couldn't find a tour guide, wouldn't bargain, so I gave up.
Lunch is in the village, boiling corn, boiling sweet potatoes, boiling potatoes, fried steak, vegetable salad, half-cooked steak is particularly exciting to eat. Bread was filled in a basket woven with sisal and eaten. I have always eaten quickly, and when I meet my favorite, it is even more windy. When everyone was still admiring and admiring the slow chewing, I had finished drying, wiped my mouth, and was so startled that Guo Sister-in-law narrowed her eyes and shouted three times: "You see, she has eaten all the plates." "I'm a bit embarrassed, hey hey, rural people have a lot of food."
After eating and drinking and walking around, we suggest that the young and handsome old Comrade Hu hide in the Maori hut, find an opportunity to plug the door upside down, and try to give birth to a few small "hairy chestnuts", we will not have one more opportunity to visit relatives and visit the door.
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