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Day 1 - Auckland

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January 5th 2011
5th January 2011 Arrived in Auckland in the early hours of the morning and got the shuttle bus to hostel. It took me about 3 hours from landing to getting to the hostel! They had 2 or 3 people working at the passport desks and I think there were 3 flights that landed in the space of half an hour! Anyways I checked into the hostel and went to bed pretty much straight away and didn’t wake up un ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland » Central

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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