Bubbling couldron

Thermal Wonderland

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May 20th 2010
Geo: -38.1398, 176.24720th MayThe final day of our trip. We spent the morning at the Wai O Tapu "Thermal Wonderland" where the combination of boiling hot water, steam and various minerals have created all sorts of colours in the rocks, pools, lakes and streams. Admittedly it probably looks even more spectacular when the whole place is NOT shrouded in mist but it was still very colo ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North 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