Rolling Around Rotorua Photo 3

Rolling Around Rotorua

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December 27th 2008
Six hours driving across the north island started our Boxing Day adventure. We arrived in Rotorua with enough time to take a gondola ride to the top of a mountain overlooking the lake and have some fun riding carts down the luge tracks. Rotorua is nestled on some serious geothermic water features and the sulphur smell follows you everywhere around town. The next morning we headed off to go Zorb ... 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