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Travel Journals: Whitianga, New Zealand


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Gap Year : New Zealand

It's a little over a week now since I left Whitianga. I'm currently sitting in the net cafe at Base Backpackers in Wellington on a sweaty Thursday evening with a nice cup of tea. I'm here in Wellington until Sunday morning, when I catch my flight over ...

Member: Luke
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New Zealand & Australia

Caught the morning ferry from Picton to Wellington, and on the TV they were showing the funeral of the Maori Queen, who died about a week ago. The Maori kingship was formed in the 1840s, when the Maoris decided they needed to unite, to better resist th...

Member: Louise
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New Zealand

A brief and simple statement from Chief Ross Orsmond has summed up the NZ leg of our trip absolutely perfectly, "Nature is freaking me out on this trip". We have been absolutely spellbound by the incredible variety of spectacular sights i...

Member: Dave and Hayley
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New Zealand and Christmas/New Year 2006

27th Making good progress, we arrived in Rotorua, the spa town right in the middle of the North Island around 4ish. This compact city is on built on the site of active volcanoes, hence the hot springs all over the place and the constant smelly of rott...

Member: Graham
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Grand ol' world tour

The Navimag cargo ferry, our home for five nights and the best fun you can have on a ship loaded with cargo trucks, cows and sea-sick passengers. Travelling on the first trip of the high season meant that the boat was only a third full. Which was exc...

Member: Ian and Alex
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Des & Tom´s Latino Adventures!

Saturday 8th April// Sunday 9th April//...

Member: desiree
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Travelling 2006

We had a couple of nights in Rotorua, which is a beautiful place, but it smells so bad!!! It's like rotten eggs, apparently it's sulpher. The first night in Rotorua, we didn't do much, we just chilled out in the geothermally heated pool, which was s...

Member: Lauren
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New Zealand, April 07

The main purpose of this 'whirlwind' trip back to NZ (we were only there for a week) was for Brigitte and Mat's wedding, which was fantastic. But we also managed to squeeze in two nights in the Coromandel with Mum and Dad, and see our families and l...

Member: Danielle and James
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New Zealand 2006

We arrived in Rotorua early afternoon and checked into the Conference Hotel, the Novotel Royal Lakeside. To be continued....................

Member: Elizabeth
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Groundhog Day in New Zealand

Rather than a sleight on the repetivity of life in NZ, I did actually spend Groundhog Day there (February 1st), although I was a little lucky to make it at all. Checked my flight details the day before I flew out. Turns out I was flying out at 9am, not...

Member: James
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Trip of a lifetime!

Well we arrived in Sydney after a tiresome 23 hours of travelling from Joburg, Africa, on the 6th March 2006....

Member: Kirsty
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