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Marlborough Wine Region

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December 2nd 2008
We tore ourselves away from Kaikoura today...we highly recommend that town! Traveling north we entered the Marlborough Wine region and spent an hour at a small winery for some tasting and lunch (curried sweet potato soup and Mediterranean salad). The wines here were excellent and we walked out with a bottle. We know now why Nelson Lakes NP isn't on the list of "Must See Places." It's pre ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Abel Tasman National Park

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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