The awesome Mount Cook

Swimming with dolphins in Middle Earth!!!

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May 4th 2006
The flight to Wellington was fine, no hitches right up until we got to our hostel, Rosmere. Turns out they didnt have our booking, and we had to make do with a dorm and a single (i nabbed the single since was still feeling like death warmed up) The next day we checked into the YHA, very swanky and a lot more central. Wellington is notoriously windswept, and it certainly didnt disappoint. The w ... 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