The next paragraph of the route that day was the visit of the biggest tree in the world cowrie - Tāne Mahuta.
That is what this tree says Wikipedia.
Tāne Mahuta - it giganstkoe cowrie tree in Waipoua Forest in the North Island of New Zealand. The age of the tree is not known precisely but is estimated between 1250 and 2500 years. Translated from the Maori language the name means "Lord of the Forest" - "the God of Forests."
The size of the giant: girth trunk - 13.77m, height of stem to crown - 17.68m, full height - 51.2m, the volume of the trunk - 244.5m ³
Near Tāne Mahuta grows another giant cowrie - Te Matua Ngahere. By the way, this tree two years ago, a thunderstorm cut verhushku.Tāne Mahuta - the oldest and most famous tree in New Zealand. As far as is known, it found and identified in the 1920s when construction of the highway number 12 through the forest. In 1928 Nicholas Yakas and other builders of the road once again to identify this tree.
According to Maori mythology, Tanya is the son of Ranginui the sky father and the mother-land Papatuanuku. Tanya broke the embrace of a child of his parents, and once stopped by clothing his mother in the forest. All living substance of the forest are children Tanya.
I made a spherical panorama near the giant, but as it turned out, the field does not transmit a sense of enormous, which occurs near the tree. All because of the fact that the tree can not come close, but from afar, it no longer seems so great.
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So I made another panoramku - a simple, vertical, horizontal frame of 5 to poltinnichke:
Well, where is, as always, I do not Taya:
