Day 47 - Bay of Plenty and Drive to Coromandel, North Island, New Zealand

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Saturday January 4th, 2014. Bay of Plenty and Drive to Coromandel, North Island, NZ We awoke in Tauranga after a really good night's sleep. Tauranga means "safe anchorage or resting place" in Maori. It is the main town on the Bay of Plenty. The Maori originally voyaged here from Eastern Polynesia. In the late 13th or early 14th century 3 Waka (canoes) landed in the Bay of Plenty. They fo... Read Full Entry

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