View of Rotorua

Rotorua & Taupo

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April 2nd 2007
Apologies for our lack of blogs over the past week or so - we thought you deserved a rest! Hope you all had a good Easter, we were thinking of you and roast dinners! Rotorua was rather stinky due to the amount of thermal activity there. Lots of geysers, steam vents and bubbling mud pools. On our first night there we went to a Maori night in a recreated Maori village where they demonstrated ... read more

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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