Where's Tina #5

Marlborough Sounds

March 5th 2008
Welcome to this month's packed edition featuring Wine, Whales, Kayaking,Glaciers and hot tubs! As you will have gathered, we are now in the South Island. It's the same country but feels subtlely different. It feels bigger, wilder and more un-tamed. Lots of big rivers, lakes, snow capped mountains and rugged coastlines. Our first port of call once off the ferry was Blenheim which was our base ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Haast Pass

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

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Daren & Tina

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We're off on a year's traveling round the world. Leaving November 14th 2007. London>Fiji>NZ>OZ>Singapore>Malaysia>Sumatra>Java>Bali>Vietnam>Cambodia>Thailand>Hong Kong Phooey>London. Looking forward to spending Christmas and new year Island hopping around Fiji and then 3 months driving round NZ in a camper van followed by 5 months of the same in Oz. Then we'll do some time traveling around South East Asia, hopefully to see Orangutans in Medan, Sumatra and Borobudur in Java before some R&R in Bali. Then some touristy stuff in Vietnam including a train journey between... full info

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