Sunday, August 26, 2007

Hobbit Travel - New Zealand: Two Islands

Kia ora, (Middle-earthspeak for Greetings or G'day)

Hobbit Traveler will explore Middle Earth's (oops, New Zealand's) two Islands - if you don’t count the other ones - sorry to those Kiwis in Steward Island and the other big “Island’ called Aussie (short for Australia!). Whisper, we may drop into the 'other' islands along the way.

The Island that looks like a bird flying away is called the ‘North’ Island. It's flying away from the one that looks like a log, also
known as the ‘South’ Island (often referred to by its inhabitants as “the Mainland”.) It, the Island that is, wants to get away from the bitter cold that is harbored in the South Island. BRRRRRRR- but hey that’s only in the winter – and the North Island winter weather is gorgeous – well mostly..

Middle Earth is an alternative name for New Zealand and another is Aotearoa; meaning 'Long White Cloud' (from the indigenous Maori Kiwis: Ao-tea-roa = Cloud-white-long). Hobbit travel will explore the mystique of Aotearoa’s Polynesian heritage which adds a mysterious magical quality to the insider secrets which will be unearthed along the way.

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