What's our next stop again? 20240429_180553

What's our next stop again?

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April 30th 2024
Outside of work my time in Rotorua was filled with card game and movie nights with my coworkers, visits to the hotpools at the polynesian spa and the night market on thursdays. I ended my stay there with a white water rafting tour, where we went down the highest commercially rafted waterfall in the world. Only one of the three boats in our group manager to go down the 7m fall without ending outsid ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Islands

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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