we set forward only after moments of hesitation. NZD 340 for a twenty minute’s flight was not right a little money for simple travellers as we were. On the other hand, we could earn it working in a fruit plantation in two or three days. Lot of tourists book expensive tickets to New Zealand for only three weeks. Fiordland, the south-west hook of New Zealand’s South Island, where Milford Sound is located, and the visit of its fiords, is the highlight of their holiday sometime. Usually, however, they afford only the boat trip around the fjord to the mouth of the open sea and back. So, hip hurray into helicopter.

     is a name of a magic place hidden in the coast of a wide bay called Golden Bay in the north part of New Zealand's south island. This is the name of a backpacker, which you can find in Zealand, this distant traveller's destination, countless number. But Shambala is the only one. I do not know if this wanderer's shelter took the original name of the place. I would say, however, that it was the owner of the ground who gave it its name, the owner who we asked for one- week asylum in May 2002 and whose personality is hard to describe. I do not remember exactly how we learned of Shambala.