Alex

waterfalls and caves

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January 28th 2008
We spent a couple of nights in a cabin near a huge lake, up in a national park. It was beautiful, but not as blue as the postcards due to precipitation! quite a lot of it, actually. However, we decided that since we'd made the effort to get there, we may as well look round, so we followed the paths through te woods, miles from anyone - who else would be up there in the rain? It was another long un ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Te Urewera National Park

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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