New Zealand, my 2nd home

New Zealand has always been in my heart. From early 2014 - early 2016, NZ is the best memory/ my most joyful change moment in my life. I have to thank people and the government of New Zealand for giving me the best opportunity being the government scholarship student there. I have met many friendly and nice people over there, I have incredibly great experience there. I lived in Wellington. Two years was so much time traveling around, even I had to commit to my study to meet the scholarship requirement. I still honor the experience both as a student and as a traveller. My life returning from New Zealand has improved in a very good way.

New Zealand has extraordinarily beautiful landscape. It has the lowest crime rate compared to many countries. It is one of the safest country to live in, especially for women and is probably the best country to raise children I must say! If you want to know the 10 most happiest country in the world (every year, they come up with the list), well beside the Scandinavian country,[ New Zealand is always there in the list](Visit The Most Happiest Country In The World the top tourist attraction, Iceland is,a wide variety of quality of life ranking.). Please check it out.

I am proud to call NZ my second home because of my living there the longest time I stayed in other country beside Cambodia and I feel like home. I have been traveling almost all over NZ and it allowed me to meet and experience many things.

In my honorable memory, I often think about NZ and say good words about the country because it is truly a great place to be. What I can do is to write about New Zealand and want the world to know about the country more. NZ doesn’t need me to promote as it already got a name and place in many world travelers’ heart. Who out there haven’t heard about this country? Queenstown? Skiing paradise? Beautiful landscape? You can explore some of those areas virtually in my summary of articles below. They just give you head-up not even not very much detailed; but can give you overall pictures about New Zealand.

Past articles about New Zealand:

What do you want to know about New Zealand?

Some notes about NZ:

  • Auckland (most populated city)
  • Christchurch (oldest city in NZ)
  • Wellington, won the “coolest little capital in the world”. It has only 442sq kilometers.
  • Queenstown (the most beautiful town)
  • Ophir town (in between Dunedin and Queenstown) has the record as the coldest town in NZ with -21.6C in 1995 July 3rd.
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Thanks for this nice post once again @Sophia_Cambodia I am very much happy to see that you got your second home outside Cambodia. And your second home is really very beautiful. Thanks for the nice photo of the Magnolia flower that I saw for the first time. Amazing.

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Thank you @MukulR two years is long enough to call it home since I love it so much :slightly_smiling_face:

If people ask me where do I want to live besides Cambodia, my answer would be NZ.

Oh, I thought you knew about this flower? It is native to America and it has various types including: Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), Star magnolia (Magnolia stellata), and Saucer magnolia (Magnolia × soulangeana). Please check them out!

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Dear @Sophia_Cambodia

The cover photo of this post looks very nice to feel all about this city from here.

Thank you so much for covering all the beautiful places of New Zealand in this post. Thank you so much for creating such a beautiful post.

Stay safe

Regards

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Thank you @KamalHossenR for your kind support. You always show your support, motivation and encouragement. I wish to write more about place, but I lost many photos in 2015 I don’t know where I kept.

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@Sophia_Cambodia Wow Nice shots, very nice capture of Magnolias too.

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Thank you, glad you enjoyed the post @jayasimha78

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Thank you Dear @Sophia_Cambodia for a nice writeup about Neezealand

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I am @jagatji from Chennai, India

Your article made me nostalgic.

I stayed in Auckland for sometime., and Mt.Eden was one of my favorite places where I used to climb quiet often as routine exercise. The photo of yours looking from the top of Mt.Eden is fantastic.

The Best part of your article is ‘some notes about Newzealand’ what kindles the interest to learn more about it.

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Thank you, glad you had great time there @jagatji it is a beautiful place to be. I love my time over there!

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Draga @Sophia_Cambodia kako to da ste se kao tako mlada djevojka odlučila otići iz svog doma u daleki svijet??

Ĺ to je presudilo?

Smijem li pitati ĹĄto ste studirala?

Ne moram ni govoriti da je i ova vaša priča nevjerojatno dobra. Super!

:slightly_smiling_face: :croatia:

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I appreciated for the opportunities to be there @renata1 I did my 2nd degree in tourism management. It was a memorable 2 years of life enlightenment being out there.

A nice write-up on your love for New Zealand @Sophia_Cambodia . Having been there myself at least 7 or 8 times (twice in 2019 and once in early 2020), and having traveled from the very top of the North Island to the very bottom of the South Island, I couldn’t agree with you more, it is a beautiful country, with lots of natural beauty and lovely people and should be on everyone’s bucket list. It’s fairly compact and has it all. Australia and New Zealand are about to open up a travel bubble so it’s likely I will revisit again soon :slightly_smiling_face:

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It is absolutely right @AdamGT you are lucky since you live very closed by. I miss it so much!

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This photo is of my private collection.

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@Sophia_Cambodia

Felicitaciones!

Interesante post, con mucha y buena informaciĂłn. Y material para ver con tiempo.

Cordialmente, desde la Patagonia,

Mariano.

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Thank you for sharing your thought and photo @DavidJmccray it looks nice!

Thank you very much for your comment @Maretx61 really appreciated your comment. Please read anytime about US or Cambodia, presented in the signature below.

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Really I’m surprised to see the places

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Thank you dear @Engr_MHasan hope you were surprised in a good way :slightly_smiling_face:

Have you been to New Zealand before? There are many things to surprise you over there!

Where did you take this photo @DavidJmccray is it from New Zealand, I mean from south island or north island?

It looks beautiful :slightly_smiling_face: