Waitangi is one of New Zealand's most significant historic sites. It is where New Zealand's founding document, Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi) was signed on February 6, 1840 between the British Crown and more than 500 Maori chiefs. The treaty agreed the terms by which New Zealand would become a British colony.
Our tour in Waitangi began with a visit to the Hundertwasser Public Toilets in Kawakawa, New Zealand. Yes friends, you read that correctly - we went on a tour to see a public restroom. It was an interesting facility named after the architect and visual artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who conceived and designed the project.
The next stop on our tour was Rainbow Falls and the Kerikeri Basin along the Kerikeri River. At the Kerikeri Basin, we were able to view the Mission House, completed in 1922, and the Stone Store which was built in 1832-1836 and is New Zealand's oldest intact stone building and its earliest surviving warehouse.
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