River Valley

Week 2 on the big green bus

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March 10th 2010
Continuing on..the next day we left Taupo and had a little walk in the NP, saw a couple of waterfalls, etc then we were off to River Valley, this was my favourite place we stayed! It was literally a hostel/outward bound centre on a river and that was it, we parked the bus at the top of the drive and had to walk down! :-) By the hostel the river was very calm so we could swim and there was a rope s ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand

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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