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Climbing glaciers and bathing in hot springs...It's a hard life!

April 2nd 2010
Undecided as to whether we should go on a half or full day tour over a glacier and on which glacier to do it on, Fox or Franz Josef, we made our way to Fox Glacier from Lake Wanaka, via Haast. The weather was pretty bleak, raining heavily which it had been doing intermittently for the whole of the previous night. When we arrived at the little town of Fox, we spoke to the staff at Fox Glacier G ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Franz Josef

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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We're now officially off on our round the world jaunt and loving, loving, loving it. Currently we're in Birmingham, England. HOME! Nov 18th - 7th Feb: Bangkok, Northern Thailand, Laos, Southern Thai Islands, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia. 8th Feb - 20th March: East Coast Australia, Melbourne - Cairns. 21st March - 20th April: New Zealand (Campervan ahoy!) 21st April - 2nd June: Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru. 3rd June: Home! “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than... full info

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