Mount Taranaki, New Zealand: The "Anchor Mountain" I Finally Saw with My Own Eyes
Have you ever seen a beautiful place in a picture or on television when you were young and wondered what it would feel like to see it with your own eyes one day? Sometimes, certain places stay in our memories for years, even though we have never actually been there. For me, Mount Taranaki in New Zealand was one of those places. When I was a child, I knew this spectacular mountain as "Anchor Mountain" because it appeared in the famous "Anchor Milk Powder advertisement". The image of that perfectly shaped mountain became familiar to me long before I ever knew where it was. I remember seeing it in the advertisement and being fascinated by its beautiful shape and majestic appearance. At that age, I never imagined that the mountain I knew only from a television advertisement was a real place that I might one day have the chance to visit. As the years passed, that childhood image remained in my memory. I travelled, saw many beautiful places and experienced different lands...