New Zealand day 2: Waitomo, Agrodome, Te Puia, Whakarewarewatang, and Rotorua
September 6th 2012 What a day. I am sitting here trying to collect my thoughts, remembering everything that I did and thinking through how I am going to put this all into a blog posting.
Here goes. I was picked up by my transfer shuttle just before 7:00 am, so once again an early start so that I could shower and pack my things. There were about a dozen of us that boarded the bus and off we went. We drove down th
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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 
