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Background: The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year, the British began the first organized colonial settlement. A series of land wars between 1843 and 1872 ended with the defeat of the native peoples. The British colony of New Zealand became an independent dominion in 1907 and supported the UK militarily in both World Wars. New Zealand's full participation in a number of defense alliances lapsed by the 1980s. In recent years, the government has sought to address longstanding Maori grievances.

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By McHearns
December 1st 2009

Visit to Paihia and Russell : 30/11 - 1/12 Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Islands » Paihia

Pohutukawa Tree
The "christmas" trees are flowering rather early this year. This is on the side of the Waitangi river

On Monday 30th we travelled to Paihia and booked into the Bay Sands motel for just one night. We thought about staying two nights but the traffic was so noisy at night we settled for just the one! We walked the beaches and generally had a very lazy day, The weather was quite good, although not very sunny. The threatened rain did not eventuate fortunately. We watched the activities on the beach from our deck at the motel including the para-sailing by one very clever man who managed to sail both with the wind and against it - up and down [View Full Entry]

By CharMcF
November 20th 2009

Bay of Islands - Paihia and Russell Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Islands » Paihia

On the beach in Paihia

Hey! So we took our first Kiwi Experience bus yesterday (Thursday). Had to be up really early to get the bus at 7 so pretty much slept on the bus all the way up because Amie and myself had been to see the preview of New Moon at midnight, so missed a lot of the beautiful countryside but it's cool cause this was just a straight up bus, not really stopping off to see anything anyway because they want you to get up to the bay of islands cause it's so beautiful. Which it is really, it's this big bay with [View Full Entry]

By BenandCharmaine
November 3rd 2009

Last Minute Madness Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Islands » Paihia

The TICKET

Today after having a mammoth 12 hour sleep we wanted to do something today…something…like an activity or just something so we aren’t wasting the day. We got up around 11ish and went to make some breakfast. We spoke on skype and then decided to walk to Paihia’s little town to book a trip. We decided that instead of just going to dolphins and doing the half day trip for $89 we were going to the full day trip for $99 which included all of the bay of islands and took the whole day. Bargain. This would also involve supply drops to [View Full Entry]

By Ibbus
November 1st 2009

Paihia uge 2 Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Islands » Paihia

Cape Reinga
Her var vi Loerdag, Det er ikke mig der har taget billedet for kunne ikke uploade, men saa kan i se hvor fantastisk det er :)

Endnu en uge er gaaet og noejs tiden gaar staerkt! 2. uge i Paihia var ugen hvor vi havde de sidste engelsktimer, dykning blev afsluttet og vi var paa heldagstur til det nordligste af New Zealand :) Mandag var vi til engelsk om morgenen og aftenen stod paa dykkerlaesning hele dagen. Saa vi laa bare inde i faellesstuen og laeste. Kedeligt Kedeligt! Tirsdag stod den paa dykkertest efter skolen. Det var bare 3 gange nemmere end vi havde regnet med, saa har ikke roert den dumme bog resten af ugen, selvom jeg ikke har faet laest den faerdig. Onsdag skulle vi [View Full Entry]

By Ibbus
October 25th 2009

Pahia uge 2 Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Islands » Paihia

Sky Diving

So second week, and so far very nice :) Mandag skulle vi paa kajaktur, hvor vi laerte lidt maoriord og om flora og fauna. Specielt nogle traer som jeg self har glemt navnet paa :P Tilsidst saa vi et lille vandfald, meget flot.. Lidt som et mini Niagra Falls. Bagefter tog jeg og Louise ud for at finde et Maori-treaty-place... Men men men, vi kunne self ikke finde det saa efter at have taaget rundt noget tid opgav vi og gik hjem. Om aftenen drak vi lidt og oel og tog paa bar, vaeldig hyggeligt. Vi bor paa et hostel, saa [View Full Entry]

By Ibbus
October 19th 2009

Foerste Uge Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Islands » Paihia

Auckland
Mette og Malene paa vores vaerelse i Auckland

Hey alle sammen :) Her er min foerste blog fra New Zealand og har vaeret her allerede en uge! Tiden gaar staerkt hernede.. 8) Vi ankom til Auckland Onsdag nat og blev tjekket ind paa et backpacker hostel ACB midt i byen - hvilket naesten var en oplevelse i sig selv. Det var en lidt haard og lang tur med en masse ventetid og masser af nye mennesker.. uhh.. Saa var ret traet da vi kom frem paa trods af at vi ikke havde lavet ret meget andet end at sidde ned, spise, se film og spise. Torsdag morgen var det [View Full Entry]

By saranakash
October 16th 2009

Oct 15-16 Paihia Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Islands » Paihia

So, I’ve been really bad at writing in my blog. It’s been a month since I last wrote anything down, so I’ll try and recap what I’ve done in the past month. So on the day of the last entry (back on Thursday October 15th), it turned out to be a really nice afternoon weather-wise. So my roommate and I had decided to take a hike over to the nearby waterfall. It took up about 30 minutes to get to the trailhead and from there the trail was about 1 ½ hours to the waterfall. We passed plenty of NZ native [View Full Entry]

By saranakash
October 12th 2009

Bay of Islands - Paihia - day 1 Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Islands » Paihia

Today was more relaxing than my last 3 days in Auckland. Woke up at 6am to catch the 7:50 am bus to Paihia in the Bay of Islands on the northern end of North Island. (Auckland is in the Center of North Island). I used Stray bus to get to Paihia. Along the way we hugged a very large Kauri tree for good luck, passed “strawberry” sheep, and photographed a tree house café. Once we arrived to Paihia, we received our free passes to go on a dolphin watching cruise. What I thought would be a 45 minute or so [View Full Entry]

By Leanne and Simon
October 5th 2009

We jumped out of a plane!!! Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Islands » Paihia

Skydive

Auckland, Sept 1 - Sept 4 Bay of Islands, Sept 5 - Sept 13 Jumping out of a plane at 12,000ft is probably one of the most terrifiyng things we have ever done. Actually it is the most terrifying thing we have ever done. You may be wondering how Simon, who is afraid of heights, managed to do this extraordinary feat. The fact is he didn't really have a choice. Within 15 minutes of inquiring about the possibility of maybe doing a skydive in Paihia we were en route to the airfield where we were met by the tiniest plane you [View Full Entry]

By Ferdi and Talita
September 30th 2009

Day 242-244: Auckland to Haruru Falls, New Zealand Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Islands » Paihia

Present for you

Friday, September 25th Our day started out with us wondering what vehicle to buy. We're leaning towards a van, but also looked at a few 4x4's and caravans. Mel reminded us that we were getting ahead of ourselves; we'd need visas if we wanted to stay another three months. We didn't think we'd need to rush, but when Talita phoned immigration they said they'd need 30 days to process our application. Our current visas expire in 27 days! So, with no time too lose we downloaded the forms, scanned through it to see what we needed to submit, then drove to [View Full Entry]

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