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New Zealand - The big plunge...

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October 22nd 2008
Hi everyone, This is a mini-update for you as we only had enough time to upload a few pictures...However, we thought you might like to see them!!! Yes, we quickly got into crazy Kiwi mode and went skydiving.... over Lake Taupo.... It was the most insane, exhilerating, petrifying and incredible experience of our lives and we cannot even begin to explain the feeling you get from falling through ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Taupo

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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