Aotearoa – "Country of the big white cloud" that's what New Zealand is called in the language of the Polynesian aborigines

Here, at the "other end of the world" you can find most different climate zones, landscapes and vegetations as close together as nowhere else: rampant snow covered mountain peaks, raging torrents, volcanos and steaming geysers, silent lakes and glacier streams, impenetrable rain forests and green extensive pasture with 70 million grazing sheeps.