I love eggs, but not when they're rotten and the stench is everywhere in the air...
July 10th 2006 Rotorua, the town that is known for smelling eggy due to the sulphur. It's so strange walking through the park with parts sectioned of due to boiling hot mud or water! Looking around certain parts of the town it seems as if there are heaps of fires with all the lines of smoke rising. The hostel even had its own thermal pools (which smelt horrid) which would turn your jewellery black and possibly g
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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 
