Auckland

15 days of an amazing country North Island Edition!!

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April 1st 2007
Sorry for the delay in the blog we have been so busy with our tour. So here we are the Grand Kiwi tour Blog.. We arrived in Auckland on thursday the 15th, with a couple of days here until we started our tour. We spent these days just getting to know Auckland, we visited the maritime museum (very intresting) and met up with Becki (Cath's freind from uni) for some drinks as she had just arrived in ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Christchurch

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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... ... read more