Auckland New Zealand, March 24
With more boats per capita than any other city in the world, Auckland is appropriately known as the city of sails. It is also known as the cleanest and most peaceful.
Located on the northeast side of the North Island, Auckland stretches across 60 extinct volcanoes. It spans a narrow isthmus that separates the Pacific Ocean from the Tasman Sea.
This is a beautiful modern city of approximately one million people. Because it has so much to offer and because we have so little time here we decided to take the Hop On Hop Off bus and spend the day getting an overview of what the city has to offer. The schedule includes 14 points of interest where we could Hop On and Off . Some of the interest points were The Auckland Zoo, Eden Park, Sky City, Bastion Point, Parnell Rose Garden, shopping centers and the Auckland Museum.
This was a gloriously cool day with low humidity, exactly the way we like it.
We bought our tickets and spent the next five hours enjoying the sight and sounds of Auckland.
The city is beautiful with stately old buildings restored to their Victorian elegance, plenty of parks and open spaces, as well as modern sky scrapers. Auckland boasts the tallest tower in the southern hemisphere.
I would have loved to visit the aquarium, and the Glow Worm Grotto but time did now allow.
We managed to spend some time at the Maori exhibit in the Auckland Museum. We were completely overwhelmed but the skills of these ancient peoples. They were unbelievably skilled in so many areas, especially carving. It defies description so I will include some photos and let it speak for itself.
Auckland is a beautiful city; the cost of living appears to be very high with a bottle of water costing three dollars and a single ice cream costing 3.50. We would come back again because we only got a very small taste of what it has to offer.
With more boats per capita than any other city in the world, Auckland is appropriately known as the city of sails. It is also known as the cleanest and most peaceful.
Located on the northeast side of the North Island, Auckland stretches across 60 extinct volcanoes. It spans a narrow isthmus that separates the Pacific Ocean from the Tasman Sea.
This is a beautiful modern city of approximately one million people. Because it has so much to offer and because we have so little time here we decided to take the Hop On Hop Off bus and spend the day getting an overview of what the city has to offer. The schedule includes 14 points of interest where we could Hop On and Off . Some of the interest points were The Auckland Zoo, Eden Park, Sky City, Bastion Point, Parnell Rose Garden, shopping centers and the Auckland Museum.
This was a gloriously cool day with low humidity, exactly the way we like it.
We bought our tickets and spent the next five hours enjoying the sight and sounds of Auckland.
The city is beautiful with stately old buildings restored to their Victorian elegance, plenty of parks and open spaces, as well as modern sky scrapers. Auckland boasts the tallest tower in the southern hemisphere.
I would have loved to visit the aquarium, and the Glow Worm Grotto but time did now allow.
We managed to spend some time at the Maori exhibit in the Auckland Museum. We were completely overwhelmed but the skills of these ancient peoples. They were unbelievably skilled in so many areas, especially carving. It defies description so I will include some photos and let it speak for itself.
Auckland is a beautiful city; the cost of living appears to be very high with a bottle of water costing three dollars and a single ice cream costing 3.50. We would come back again because we only got a very small taste of what it has to offer.
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