Mist over Lake Te Anau

The lady is a tramper...

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March 3rd 2008
Everyone says how easy hitching is in New Zealand, how quickly you are picked up and how safe it is. After 10 minutes of standing by the road smiling with my thumb stuck out I started to feel offended that no one was stopping! Seconds later a girl going to Glenorchy stopped. She didn't normally pick up people on their own but decided that as I was a brown haired girl and she was a brown haired gir ... 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