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Oi, Stinky !!!

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January 21st 2008
Up at the crack of dawn again due to the paper thin walls at the back packers lodge and builing up courage to head into the communal showers !! We head on from Lake Taupo on our way to Rotorua. Our first stop is Hukka Falls, just out of town. Quite pretty but as it's raining we don't stay long get back into the car and onwards and upwards. A brown sign states "Craters Of The Moon" which sounds ... read more

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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