Day 10 - Arrowtown, Queenstown to Glenorchy Scenic Drive and Kinloch, Otago, South Island, New Zealand 35. D in front of a Miner's Hut at Arrowtown Chinese Settlement

Day 10 - Arrowtown, Queenstown to Glenorchy Scenic Drive and Kinloch, Otago, South Island, New Zealand

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November 28th 2013
Thursday 28th November, 2013. Arrowtown, Queenstown to Glenorchy Scenic Drive and Kinloch, Otago, South Island, New Zealand. We checked out of our posh room at Wanaka and headed for Queenstown. The journey was about 68 kilometers. On the way we stopped at a place called Cardrona which is a ski resort. Established as a gold rush township in the 1860s on the banks of the small river of the same n ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Lake Wakatipu

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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