Queenstown from the Sky Line Gondola

Day 24 - Arrowtown and the Skyline Luge

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November 30th 2006
Thanks everyone for all the comments - please keep the coming! If you haven't left a comment please do so! :o) After a very cold night in the campervan we awoke to lots more snow - the snow line about 500m high so everything looked real nice. It was still cloudy and occasional shower so we headed out to an old gold mining town called Arrowtown - which basically hasn't changed much since the 186 ... 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