Adrenaline filled fun in surely the most picturesque town in the World
October 25th 2010 We arrived in QT in the early afternoon and our first stop (as always) was the i-site for some info about the town. Although QT is probably one of the best known towns in NZ and has loads to do, it isn’t very big at all with a population of only 8500 people, although this gets above 50,000 in high summer and also in winter for the snow season. The scenery here is amazing, probably the most pictu
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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 
