Tongariro National Park walk

Beavis & Butthead Do New Zealand

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June 5th 2007
Returning to a Westernised culture was disarming. Toilet paper could be flushed, multinational corporation names were ubiquitous.... In New Zealand I decided to go on a bus tour since I had only 3 weeks to discover the island. Starting off in Auckland, we headed south. We passed Cathedral Cove, with the hot water beaches where we dug holes in the sand and boiling water came up, and the rural r ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand

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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