Having spent 10 weeks in KeriKeri, it was time to move on. Most backpackers who arrived at Hone Heke Lodge later than me had left much earlier. Besides the fruit picking season is coming to an end.Anyway, I left KeriKeri on 21 May 2008 to go to Paihia, just a mere 25 km away. During summer, there would be 50 backpackers waiting in a queue for their fish and chips. Now it is so quite.
Just 20 minutes walk from Paihia is Waitangi, where a treaty was signed in 1840 between local Maori chiefs and British Government, thus allowing British to declare sovereignty over Aotearoa (New Zealand).
Pictures: (1) Paihia at nightfall (2) me in a Maori Meeting House and (3) partial view of a Maori Meeting House.
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