Last Saturday, I took a ferry in Picton, to go to the Northern Island. Beautiful cruise in Queen Charlotte Sound, and then Cook Strait.
Arriving by night in Wellington.
Te Papa Museum, in Wellington, is so interesting (and free) that I spent at least 4 hours, glancing through the exhibitions distributed on 6 floors. You can learn more about Maori the people, its culture, its history...
The Treaty of Waitangi is New Zealand's founding document. It is an agreement, in Maori and English, that was made, in 1840, between the British Crown and about 540 Maori rangatira (chiefs). It is a broad statement of principles on which the British and Maori made a political compact to found a nation state and build a government in New Zealand.
From Wellington, I went to Taupo, a little town which lies by the eponymous lake. A magnificent place.
Along the road, the lanscape
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