Whangerei

Rotorua smells like bad eggs!!

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August 13th 2008
it really does!! sulphur and oxygen not a nice smell makes.. so we've had the van over a week now and have been around northland and we're now in rotorua, which is around the middle of the north island. in northland we stayed in Whangerei, had a wander round some nature stuff then went to zion wildlife gardens where we did the big cat experience tour wher we got to meet and stroke an adult t ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Rotorua

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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