Swinging

Extreme sports in spite of the bad weather

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February 23rd 2009
Feb 23rd We stayed for a couple of nights at Wanaka - a lively town which is a ski resort in winter so has lots of bars etc. We hoped the rain would stop - it did intermittently, long enough for us to do a walk up a mountain. This area was used a lot in the Lord of the Rings filming- and there are lots of views which you could imagine being used - our walk was classified as “rugged country sout ... 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