local cuisine!

Its a hard life!!

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April 13th 2006
We headed up to Hanmer Springs nice & early this morning so we got a full day there! It only took 2hrs drive and the scenery was so beautiful-snow capped mountains! We'd already looked up a place to stay called Alpine Adventure park so we headed straight for there...as i'm the 'navigator' this means i have to do all the running around asking prices and stuff when we get there (well according to S ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Hanmer Springs

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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