If there is a natural paradise, then at the other end of the world. There, where shy kiwi birds in the undergrowth of the rainforest hide where vitamin -packed fruits ripen and where the Kiwis - how the New Zealanders call themselves The landscape diversity is amazing: beautiful beaches in the Mediterranean climate, ice-cold glaciers in the high mountains, deep fjords, intricate forests with giant trees and thermal areas. Maori inhabited this paradise first.