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January 29 Auckland [We started our grand adventure in Australia’s largest city.  We’re ending in New Zealand’s largest city.  In between we visited several smaller cities.] [Arriving in port where we would disembark the Maasdam for the last time.] [Port … Continue reading →

January 28 Cruising the Bay of Plenty [Gorgeous weather for an all-day cruise on the way to Auckland.  Actually, it should be called the White Island cruise.  We hung around here pretty much all day, which was great, doing 360’s … Continue reading →

January 27 Rotorua [Continuing the same day . . . ] [Finally, the Maori experience . . . ] [Whakarewarewa, The Living Maori Village] [And it’s thermal, to boot!] [Acknowledging famous women guides:  During the mid-19th century tourists began visiting … Continue reading →

January 27 Tauranga (Rotorua) [“Tauranga is the most populous city in the Bay of Plenty Region of the North Island.  It was settled by Māori late in the 13th century and by Europeans in the early 19th century and was constituted as … Continue reading →