rotorua

Smell it

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March 17th 2007
Arrived in Rotorua on 17/03/07. You can smell the place before you arrive as it is surrounded by sulphur pools, mud pools etc… The intensity of smell tends to vary a bit depending on the wind. On day 1 it smelt like raw sewage, day 2 the smell had subsided a little. This might have just been my snout playing tricks with me though. It’s kind of strange Rotorua as you can just go off wondering ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Rotorua

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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