Glow worm hangy stuff

New Zealand

---

October 14th 2008
We had to get up early to go to the site office and book our trips for the day. The night before we’d picked up stacks of leaflets and had spent our evening pondering which ones to do. Caves don’t really do it for me - it’s not that I don’t like them, but I just didn’t want to spend lots of money on cave trips when I’d rather put it towards something else. In the end Matt decided to d ... 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