Beautiful Milford Sound

All aboard the big green ....truck!

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May 19th 2006
Hello all! We are now on the Kiwi Experience! Which is interesting..... Actually we are getting to see a lot more of New Zealand than would have otherwise been possible so I shouldn't be too rude! We left in a little minibus to get to Westport to meet up with the big green bus. Westport was a little town with nothing in it, and the weather was so miserable when we arrived that only one girl wan ... 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