...and what's in the pool

Day 18-19

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June 15th 2006
Day 18: Rotorua Pamper day! The morning was very cold and frosty, heralding a gorgeous day. We went to ‘Hell’s Gate’, about 10 kms out of town, and a place George Bernard Shaw apparently named, along with other appropriate features such as Devil’s Throat, Inferno and Mud Volcano. The mud pools were much bigger here than others we’d seen, and the steaming cliffs, hot stream and hot lake ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

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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