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Amazing Train Journeys

Nouvelle-Zélande (Season 4, Episode 5)
TV Episode | Documentary
Beginning of the journey in Auckland: Philippe takes the train from Auckland to Wellington (there are only two trains each day on this line).In the dining car Philippe speaks with a charming Maori-Italian woman about the haka (Kamate ...See moreBeginning of the journey in Auckland: Philippe takes the train from Auckland to Wellington (there are only two trains each day on this line).In the dining car Philippe speaks with a charming Maori-Italian woman about the haka (Kamate Kamate) and she explains that Maori women have also their own haka and proposes him to visit a Maori village.Philippe stops at Taumarunui and goes to Rotorua: a village in volcanic region; he see how Roni and Narmoni, two Maoro women cook a chicken soup with the the steam coming from the earth.They invite him to the public baths where all the villagers take a bath twice a day..Later Philippe hires a little train to reach the place of Whangamomona.He meets the president of the Republic of Whangamomona, a man full of humor who explains him the story of the Republic.Then Philippe takes the train to Wellington, the ferry to Picton, then a train which goes through the Alps of the South: he has very pleasant talks with the passengers about the kiwi, national bird of New Zealand and the kiwi, a fruit imported from China.Then Philippe meets Pete who manages an inn with his wife and is an opossum hunter: the opossum is an invasive animal which doesn't have natural predators in New Zealand.So Pete invites Philippe to go to the mountain with his helicopter.Later Philippe Philippe meets teachers and students who sing to him a Maori song.Finally Philippe ends his journey in Kaikoura: with marine biologists he is watching at dolphins and also diving among them. Written by zutterjp48 See less
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Director
Nicolas Boero
Writers
Nicolas Boero | Philippe Gougler
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Status
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Updated Aug 9, 2014
Release date
Aug 9, 2014 (New Zealand)

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Amazing Train Journeys (2011)
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