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Our first New Zealand beach walk - water was colder than we expected

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November 26th 2009
Familiar faces, the smell of eggs and sun burn!!! Its funny we spent less time on the plane between Fiji and New Zealand than we did in the bus getting from Auckland airport to Tauranga. I mean we’d heard the roads weren’t great and their “motor ways” are well not even duel carriageways, but we didn’t really think we would be sitting down for so long. We had got on two buses, the firs ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty » Tauranga

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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