Akaroa is a cute charming village at the end of Banks Peninsula. Everything here has a certain french style, as the first settlers (after maori people, of course) were from a French expedition. They liked that spot and decided to go back to France to look for more people and resources and then to come back to start building a colony. But during the trip, the Treaty of Waitingi was signed, and New Zealand became a British country. However, British people let French settle down in Akaroa, having their own village separately from the English settlement. Banks Peninsula is an area full of narrow bays, beaches and has two big inlets or sounds: two natural harbours located on the craters of the volcanoes that formed the peninsula thousands of years ago. Once it was covered by rainforest, but it has been spoiled by man, first for wood and afterwards, for cattle.
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