Day 7 - Fox Glacier and Scenic Drive to Wanaka, Otago, South Island, New Zealand
November 25th 2013 Monday 25th November, 2013. Fox Glacier and Scenic Drive to Wanaka, Otago, South Island, New Zealand.
Today was the worst weather we had had so far. We woke up in Franz Josef and it was hammering it down with rain. After breakfast we set off for the Fox Glacier. We had decided to go for the Chalet View Track to the Fox Glacier as we had done the valley walk to the Franz Josef Glacier. The Chale
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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 
