Rotorua City park

Day 23 - Rotorua

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November 25th 2008
After the weather forecast looked to improve today, we decided to get out of town. We took the AirBus out to the airport - the AirBus runs every 15-minutes from the downtown area of Auckland to the domestic and international terminals at Auckland’s airport. Once we arrived at the airport a short 35 minutes later, we picked up our Daihatsu economy car with manual stick-shift. It was a flashy r ... 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