On the Road to Sydney 10th - 16th Oct (via Bogota, Houston, LA and Auckland)
December 3rd 2010 Our route to Sydney was to take us through 5 countries and take 6 days including with 2 visiting stops. This was partly because Star Alliance has pretty poor South American coverage and no routes from South America to Australasia. This meant our round the world ticket forced us to fly back via the USA to reach Down under.
The first day of our journey started in Quito, Ecuador where we spent a l
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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 
