Mount Cook

Queenstown and Bungy!

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March 10th 2007
OK......before I start this entry, I told alot of you that I wanted to do a bungy, even though I was really scared, I still wanted to do it. For most of the journey on the Kiwi Experience bus we had been talking about who was and who wasn't going to do a bungy. I initially just wanted to do one off a bridge with water beneath me, and that was enough. But........sitting with the boys who had alre ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

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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