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NEW ZEALAND TRAVEL GUIDE **Hi, I'm N** **idhi.** **Welcome to my travel guide of New Zealand.** New Zealand is a small island country located off of Australia. ** New Zealand ** is situated in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island), and numerous smaller islands, most notably the Stewart Island/ Rakiura and the Chatham islands. New Zealand is notable for its geographic isolation: it is situated about 2,000 km (1250 miles) southeast of Australia across the Tasman Sea,and its closest neighbours to the north are New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The capital city is Wellington. The other major city is Auckland. New Zealand currency is called the New Zealand dollar( NZD).The languages spoken are English and Maori. The estimated population in 2010 is about 4,369,263. THIS IS THE FLAG OF NEW ZEALAND media type="custom" key="5942429" width="196" height="196"

The Climate of New Zealand is mostly cool temperate to warm temperate with a strong maritime influence.In summer, the temperature is in the mid- twenties ( Celsius). It is hit by a tropical cyclone every 8 to 9 years. It recieves around 300 millimeters of rain per year. media type="custom" key="6019631" width="220" height="220"media type="custom" key="5974321" width="224" height="224" These are pictures of some of New Zealand's currency. **1 New Zealand dollar = 0.7233 U.S. dollars**  Nearly one-third of those surveyed in the International Visitor Survey in 2000 had used domestic air services; rental cars and coach tours were each used by one-quarter. Transport by private car and ferry were the fourth and fifth most common means of transport, ahead of scheduled bus and train. The State Highway network, which provides the backbone road traffic infrastructure connecting New Zealand towns. Rental car was the preferred method of transport for visitors from Australia There are 113 airports in New Zealand The main international airport is Auckland Airport, which handled about 11 million passengers in 2005.Christchurch Airport and Wellington Airport each handle about 4 million passengers per year. AIRPORTS:One of the major airports in New Zealand is the[| Wellington Airport] A historical site to visit in New Zealand is the[| Alberton] in Auckland. This romantic timber mansion began as a farmhouse in 1863 and was later expanded to 18 rooms, with fairy-tale decorative verandahs and towers. It was owned by the Kerr Taylors, a leading family in Mount Albert, until it was left to the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1972. Allan Kerr Taylor was a landowner, investor and provincial and local body politician. His wife Sophia was an outspoken advocate of the vote for women, as well as a singer, gardener and mother of 10. She ran the estate for 40 years after her husband’s death, with her three unmarried daughters running it for a further 40 years.
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Location- 100 Mount Albert Road, Mount Albert, Auckland 1025 tel: + 64 9 846 7367, fax: + 64 9 846 1919, e-mail: alberton@historic.org.nz Hours-  ** 10.30am - 4.30pm Wednesday - Sunday, Closed Mondays, Tuesdays, Christmas Day and Good Friday. Admission- Self guided tour free for children, Adults- small fee at the gate. **   **MUSEUM:** A nice museum to go to in New Zealand is the [|Aukland War Memorial Museum].The Museum tells the story of New Zealand, its place in the Pacific and its people. The Museum is a war memorial for the province of Auckland and holds one of New Zealands top three heritage libraries. It has pre-eminent Maori and Pacific collections, significant natural history resources and major social and military history collections, as well as decorative arts and pictorial collections. Auckland War Memorial Museum is New Zealands first museum. Established in 1852 in a two-room farm cottage in the central Auckland suburb of Grafton, Auckland Museum is recognised as holding nationally and internationally significant collections.

Timings for the museum are Monday- Sunday: 10 AM to 5 PM; Closed on Christmas Day Admission is $10 for adults, Children and students under 15- Free. Location- Domain Dr,Parnell, Auckland 1052, New Zealand(09) 3094443 New Zealand offer a variety in fine dining. **In New Zealand, you might want to eat at the [|Cornwall Park Restaurant] Cornwall Park Restaurant Greenlane Rd west, Cornwall Park, Greenlane, PO BOX 10035, Mt. Eden, Auckland. **to start** - • Creamy pumpkin and kumara soup w focaccia croutes • Roasted vegetable stack w bocconcini and balsamic reduction • Sweet corn fritters and streaky bacon w sweet chilli mayonnaise and petite salad • Salmon fillet on pearl barley risotto w preserved lemon, macadamia nuts and hollandaise sauce • Beef and ale hot pot w puff pastry top and roasted winter vegetables • Apple and feijoa crumble w feijoa ice cream • Baked blue berry cheese cake w blue berry coulis and whipped cream • Sultana and chocolate bread and butter pudding w vanilla ice cream
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 * Two and three course menus change daily - 3 Courses- $ 42.50 per person **
 * to follow-**• Parpardelle pasta w artichokes, mushrooms, garlic and pesto cream
 * dessert-**• Rich chocolate and raspberry tart w chocolate ice cream

For information about New Zealand, you might want to read [|New Zealand: A Natural History.] This book talks about the natural history of New Zealand.  This stunning book combines spectacular photography with natural history and personal experience to guide readers into "the land of the long white cloud." Second only to Hawaii in natural diversity, the New Zealand archipelago has borne centuries of environmental tumult and species destruction. At present, dedicated conservationists are working hard to revive shattered ecosystems and to restore endangered species. In a heartfelt tribute to those efforts, the authors chronicle the environmental successes and failures while revealing the islands' otherworldly organisms and plant life. All of the photographs were taken either in the wild or in conservation areas, and many reveal plants and creatures rarely before seen. 
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For New Zealand citizens in the US, you can always visit the New Zealand Embassy, United States 37 Observatory Circle, NW 20008, Washington DC  District of Columbia USA Ambassador- Roy Ferguson +1-202-3284800 +1-202-3284887 +1-202-3284803 +1-202-6675227 +1-202-2659559 +1-202-2659238 nz@nzemb.org www.nzemb.org www.nzembassy.com/usa
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For US citizens in New Zealand, you can always visit the [|US embassy] there Consul General- Randy W. Berry Ambassador- David Heubner **Email:** __wellington.arc@state.gov__ || Postal Address: |||| Consulate General of the United States of America Private Bag 92022, Auckland, New Zealand || Citigroup Building, 23 Customs Street East, Auckland (cnr. Commerce St) || internationally: || (09) 303 2724, Extns: 2842/2848/2856 +64 9 303 2724, Extns: 2842/2848/2856 || internationally: || (09) 366 0870 +64 9 366 0870 ||
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