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Mount Cook and the turquoise lake  
   

Mount Cook and the turquoise lake

Christchurch - the final leg

January 27th 2006
Day 75 We spent the day on the bus traveling to Christchurch!! We stopped for a breather at a couple of places including a view point of the other side of Mount Cook, New Zealand's biggest mountain, which is still some 1000 m short of where we were staying in Bolivia!! It was a spectacular view. We were picked up at 8 and arrived at 4. We looked around town and had a drink in a re ... read more
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New Zealand Flag 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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