The Cooking Pool

The Maori cooked allsorts in here (eggs, watercress, people - anything they wanted to give a sulphur smell to - quite frankly, if I was given a plate of anything cooked in here, there would be NO WAY I'd eat it as it STINKS!)

Geysers, Cars and Ducks

February 16th 2009
After our first night away from the campsite and consequently having very little sleep, a lazy day was on the agenda. We decide to do something touristy and check out one of the geysers in Rotorua - apparently when you put soapy water in it, it shoots up 20 metres in the air - this was discovered when the local Maori where doing their laundry, back in the day. So we park up and do our best to avoi ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Rotorua

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

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