Tongariro national park

The rest of our North Island Roadtrip.... :)

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March 26th 2008
Sorry we haven't done our blog recently - we've been crazily busy making sure we saw as much as possible before leaving NZ...! In the last 2 weeks or so we've driven 4000Km and seen so much! It was knackering but worth it! So, we drove through the Tongariro National Park, past Mount Tongariro itself which is very impressive, all the way to Whakapapa Village... from here we went on a chairli ... 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