Maori Dancers

Traditional performers in the museum theatre

November 24th 2008
Auckland, City of Sails Thursday 20th November 2008 This is our third night in Auckland and our verdict is that it’s a great city. Leaving Fiji with its bure huts, coral beaches and simple lifestyle and then just three hours later arriving in such a vibrant modern city, has been quite a surreal experience. We arrived at lunchtime on Tuesday and spent over two hours between landing and getti ... 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

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Viv and John Cussell

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We are off island-hopping in Thailand for the month of February. We shall leave home on the 1st of the month and return on 29th (an extra day for Leap Year)! Our journey will be from Alicante to Barcelona by train, then two flights, the first from Barcelona to Doha and the second from Doha to Phuket, both with Qatar Airways. Although this will be our forth visit to the "Land of Smiles", we haven't been there for eleven years and plan to visit islands we haven't seen before. In 2009, we travelled overland from Singapore to the island of Langkawi, Northern Malaysia, in the Southern Andaman Sea. ... full info

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