Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Journey across New Zealand: from Auckland to Bay of Islands

NEW ZEALAND

 

 

Looking at New Zealand’s entrancing and diverse landscapes modulating sceneries of a dramatic beauty, one cannot avoid the fascination of witnessing the sublime ability of Nature to constantly reinvent itself.
 

We explored the land of Kiwis in a “Hippie Camper” under a magnificent blue sky, coming across imposing mountains and picturesque grassland plains, active volcanoes and serene water falls, lush forests and wild beaches, striking fiords and a rugged coastline, paradisiacal islands and a vibrant underwater life…

 

 

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the one and only…Hippie Camper!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Auckland (12)
 
Auckland (39)

Auckalnd’s cityscape

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mangawhai Heads (7) 
 
Mangawhai Heads (21)
 
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Mangawhai Heads (49)
 

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Mangawhai Heads

 

 

 

 

 

 

Waipu Cove

Surfers waiting for the swell, White Cove

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Eccentric motorcyclist on the road to Bay of Islands

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whangarei falls (48)

Wangharei falls

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paihia. (6)

Waka ama (outrigger canoe racing) symbolizes the Maori

connections to the Polynesian culture

 

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Detail of an outrigger canoe, Bay of Islands   

Pakiri   

 

Waitangi (6) 
 
Waitangi 
 

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Waitangi, Bay of Islands

This little village was the place where the famous Treaty of Waitangi, which formalized the foundation of New Zealand as a nation, was first signed, on 6 February 1840.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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