Matamata 1

Me and Heather meet Gollum in Hobbiton

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Meandering through Mercury Bay, revelling in Rotorua and wowed in Waitomo!

November 7th 2007
Kia Ora from Waitomo! God this alliteration thing with the titles is annoying, stretching a bit for them now! After a sleepless night thanks to some extraordinarily loud snoring, we got up to find it was absolutely hammering it down with rain in Auckland. We jumped back on the Kiwi bus, met our new driver Mar, and got taken up to Mount Eden, one of 70 dormant volcanoes in the region, which ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Waitomo Caves

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

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