Day 29 - Banks Peninsula Tourist Route, Lyttelton & Christchurch - Two Devastated Places
December 17th 2013 Tuesday 17th December, 2013. Lyttelton & Christchurch - Two Devastated Places
We said our goodbyes to Sharon and Dick and started the rest of the tourist drive on the Banks Peninsula. We headed to the next bay on the north coast which was a place called Little Akaloa. The weather was rubbish, rainy and cloudy. We agreed that this would have been a stunning drive with beautiful views if the weat
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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 
