Living among sheep

Just as much New Zealand is full with tourists, much of New Zealand is full with sheep.

Maybe sheep are not the first thing you think of when you hear about New Zealand, but did you know that there are more sheep than people?

There are about 30 million of this animals in New Zealand, approximately seven sheep per people however, is still quite different from 1982, when New Zealand had 70.3 million sheep, or a super impressive 22 sheep for every person!

Although the numbers of sheep has been decreasing a lot they are in almost every part of the country they even have taken over the Hobbit holes that were created for the filming of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

New Zealand people love sheep so much that they  have sheep shearing competitions and they also have an event that would put the Pamplona event to shame, forget about the running of the bulls!  Te Kuiti town has The Running of the Sheep!

In one way or another sheep are all over New Zealand, in its fields, on its dinner menus, flavors in its bags of crisp and they also keep people warm in their boots and jackets!