Wanaka town

Sky diving!!

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April 30th 2007
Right hello again, Left you all as I arrived in Wanaka. This was a really cool little town with stunning scenery. The major highlight of my time here was going skydiving! This is so much fun and if you havent thrown yourself out of a perfectly good plane from a great height before I fully recommend it. I jumped from 15,000 feet which is a long way up and you freefall for 1 minute... So ... 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