Us by Lake Pukaki and Mount Cook

52d. Tiki Tour - Part Four, and back in Auckland

March 31st 2009
In March, we headed off on a 2-week holiday of NZ’s South Island. We used a 'hop on hop off' bus service called Stray Backpacker Bus NZ to get around, and our big highlights were swimming with dolphins, catching our own fish for dinner and climbing a glacier. Stops 7 and 8: Lakes and Lakes, really (P) We had an overnight st ... read more

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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

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Paula - Here we are fulfilling a long-held dream of travelling the planet. Through our travelblog have fun joining us along the way! Nick - these are a couple of quotations that I picked up along the way: "In German, there is a word, Kunstlerschuld, which means "artist's guilt", the emotion a painter feels over his frivolity in a world in which people work in a rut that makes them gloomy. Perhaps there is also a sort of traveler's guilt, from being self-contained, s... full info

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