Waitomo Caves

Waitomo - Taupo - and Napier

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February 6th 2011
So very long since we had access to the net it's a little difficult to remember what we need to tell you about. Let me think, ah yes the famous Shirley tours trip to Waitomo. Shirley let me down here by traveling us for bloody miles in one direction only to have to return the same route later in the day to travel back to Taupo. We set off from Rotarua and took a two hour journey across the mo ... read more

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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