En-route to the fishies

Exploring the South Island

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August 7th 2011
New Zealand is an amazing country with breathtaking scenery around every bend and friendly, humorous locals to meet in every town and village. It’s no surprise that so many people migrate here. We covered a lot of distance, 3,600km approx, from Queenstown to Auckland with quite a few diversions in between. On the south island we spent the first week in Queenstown and then drove up to Picton over ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island

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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