Country I'd like to visit

A country I'd really like to visit is New Zealand:

Since I saw Lord of The Rings I have always wanted to visit New Zealend especially for the great Landscapes that are shown in the Lord of The Rings movies. I really don't know much about New Zealand but I got a couple of friends from school that lived some years there and they always are saying how much of a great time they had while living in there. I know that it's located in Oceania and the most common language is English.

The main reason I would  like to visit New Zealand is that I saw on T.V there is a tour called "Lord of The Rings tour" that takes people around all the important Lord of The Rings film spots. As I mentioned in the beginning of the post, when I first saw a Lord of The Rings movie I was shocked by the beauty of the movie's Landscape, so it would be awesome to be in that same place. Also besides all the touristic thing, I'd really like to study there, maybe in an exchange program or something like that.