Dolphins Playing With Boat

First Week in New Zealand Roundup

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February 5th 2007
After arriving in Christchurch on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, got the bus from the airport to the hostel in the heart of the city. Walked through the gardens of the city and enjoyed some of the street buskers who were holding a world festival in Christchurch that week out the front of the Cathedral. First impressions of the city were that it was really really English, with stre ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island

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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