By Louise Young

Population: 4.2 million

Capital: Wellington

Languages: English, Maori

Currency: New Zealand dollar ($NZ)

Where we wentWhere we went:Auckland

Rotorua

Wellington

Greymouth

Wanaka

Queenstown

Dunedin

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•Shantytown: Go back in time to the early 1900's and witness exactly how it was like to live 100 years ago in New Zealand with this re-created village.

•Active Earth: Volcanoes and Rainforest: Explore the North Island with this 10 day hiking trip including hiking the mountainous terrain and kayaking in the Rotoura lakes.

The Maori are the native Polynesian people of New Zealand which used to be called Aotearoa.

In the 1800’s the Maoris’ lost a lot of their land, and went into a population decline. A distinct Maori cultural revival began in the 1960s.