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glass floors looking down on the streets below (can hold the weight of 4 baby elephants!! why measure the weight in baby elephants and also, did they put the elephants up there to test it?!?! what happened to the 5th one?!?!)

week 1

September 28th 2008
okdoke, so after i wrote the last entry i went up the sky tower with karl (kate had already been up as she got here a few days before us) was the perfect day to go up as was clear blue skies and we could see for miles. auckland is very much a stretched out city that turns into towns (like where the volunteer house is, in a town called mount albert) very treed area aswell (thumbs up from me then :D ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

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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