Interior without Benjamin

The drive to Motueka

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October 27th 2008
The TripInn in Westport has been a surprisingly good place so it is hard to leave the wonderful Victorian house but we head out after breakfast moving inland and then North to Motueka, a town close to the famous Abel Tasman National park. The drive is the usual collection of one lane bridges, roads with no guardrails and precarious falls into rivers or off mountains if you make a wrong turn. A ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Motueka

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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