"White clouds coming from all the sides turned the blue sky into white and kept the earth iluminated by the divine light from sunshine. Yeah!... It was AOTEAROA "the land of the long white cloud "as commonly call the Maori people to their territory.

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A Native people, Millennial. They do on their bodys tattos with a unique style. This ones that fascinate the world. Powerfully they hit the foot to the ground and his hand to his chest showing the tongue and eyes wideopen in a sign of dance, ritual. More than a kind of defense they want to pass us messages that we do not understand at the first contact, but when we go deep in to the Maori Culture and  get more alive after this expereiences to tell stories lived in a "movie land", would say JRRTolken, we assimilate the dynamic of that place, that people and the energy that is in there.

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The airplane landed in Auckland after we parted from the land of the kangaroos and to there never return... it hurted! but it was necessary to grow! Was the last days before go back home, however I did not imagine that my sense of home would be more and more bigger and would fit inside me wherever I was.

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We get into a campervan toward South Island, the final destination would  be Queenstown, and from there we would drop the car and return by plane to Auckalnd to then return to Brazil. Were 17 days described in these few words and selection of photos that recorded this adventure, a dream that became real.

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And what happened in these days and these thousands of Kilometers in a car that was also our house? Fascination and change! I will always remember perfectly every mile of curved roads and lush mountains that were cosated over lakes that formed water mirrors reflecting the beauty of the nature as well as it was.

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The smell of sulfur in the nose comimng from the volcanic regions. The enthusiasm from people waiting for the arrival of winter and the snow season. The green fields full of sheep numbering more than humans who live in that small piece of land made up of two main islands and many stunning views. Among them, lakes, mountains, beaches, cities, valleys, volcanoes, forests, roads, slopes, parks, bars, woooww, that country ... so small, but so big. Unforgettable!

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Unforgettable were also the moments, the adventures, the overruns, meetings with brazilian friends, the laughs, the late nights, delays, surprises, joys ... contemplation and peace and euphoria it brings me to this day when remonto that trip in my mind. Writing about this is thrill me and feel the life that always worth it.

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To an amazing end of the trip, Bungy Jump! Contextualizing, the New Zealander AJ Hackett was the first man who explored commercially this practice, jumping in 1987 from the Eiffel Tower and then starting a business on a site for Bungy jump located at Kawarau bridge near Queenstown. A perfect place with a great structure and a lot of history. The platform is the bridge up to 43 meters from a river of turquoise blue color. The park has a platform to watch the jumps and make the decision to go or not for this huge dose of adrenaline. You pay, they write your weight in your hand and then you wait for your time. Like a sentence of death, but this one brings you to life. By tying your feet with a special thick rope made of thin rubber strings they ask you how deep you want to go into the cold water of the Kawarau River. I chose not to get wet, it was winter and had bathed already, thank you, I sad! There took three pictures and went to the platform. No return, no crying, you better say good bye to that old life you had been living until there, say goodbye to what you were. Becouse a free fall jump is an experience that changes your perspective. Few seconds that make you produce a substance and release into the bloodstream, the famous ADRENALINE. That feeling changes you!  Gives you more life, and if you open your arms and eyes ... you able to feel the freedom of the paradise. And if the string work well, and it did! you turn back to reality, different than it was before. I hope you reader miss the air with this report and feel in a better place within yourself. No need to go there to feel all this. But if you go my friend! ahhhhh, you'll cry ... #CELEBRATE