Climbing up...

Working our way up North!

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February 1st 2008
Hello all! Well, since we last wrote we've done a far few more kilometres and crossed over into the North Island! Starting where we left off in Queenstown, we slowly came down from our adrenaline high and left for Wanaka. Unfortunately it was a very rainy day (took us back to the good ol' days of Manchester weather - oh how we miss it!) so we stopped in Wanaka but the lake was almost covered in cl ... 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