Me in the Ice Bar

Two Days of Action and Adventure

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December 4th 2008
We are still in Queenstown and as it is suppossed to be the adventure capital of the world we thought we would throw ourselves into it! On Tuesday evening we went to the Ice Bar in Queenstown, we loved this as this was somewhere we went on our first holiday in Stockholm. We got into the adventure stuff on Wednesday when we went white water rafting - we went on the Shotover river which has the ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

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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