Snowy Mountains

Merry Christmas from New Zealand

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December 28th 2006
Rotorua (12/17 to 12/20/06) Rotorua is the most commercialised tourist destination on the North Island, and to put it bluntly...it smells like poo! You don't get used to the horrid egg smell of sulphur, and before you know it, your hair and clothes smell like poo too! But you don't come here for the smell...you come here to see the impressive thermal activity...bubbling mud pools, steaming hot ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North 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