Milford Sound

Queenstown and Milford Sound, NZ

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January 13th 2009
We spent a few days in Queenstown, appropriately nicknamed the adventure capital of the world. People come here to do all kinds of crazy sh*t. When I got in, I was in a shared dorm for the first night, and my roommates immediately showed me their videos of their 134m bungee jump from earlier that afternoon. Insane! It's supposedly the 2nd highest bungee in the world. And then they were going ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

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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