Mt. Cook

Southland...Mountains and Fjords

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December 7th 2005
Here we are again, in an internet cafe in Christchurch. We leave tomorrow for Thailand at 3:00pm from Auckland and arrive in Bangkok, Thailand at 10:00pm, after a 12 hour flight. Somewhere in there we travel back in time five hours. After our arrival, we have to navigate our way through a huge city with no order in the way its streets and street numbers are assigned and find some road named Kha ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Canterbury Plains

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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