Auckland - Blogabond

June 8
We left the campsite and drove the 50km to Auckland to yet another campsite. After plugging the van in we set off walking to the bus stop and catching the bus into the city. We headed towards the Sky Tower, except first had to take photos of it from a distance. We went up to the main observation deck at 186m. As James was standing on the glass floor I made him jump by pushing him - very funny!

Looking through the glass floor

The tower is the tallest in the Southern Hemisphere at 328m. When the tower was built the construction workers consumed over 500,000 meat pies and 1.2 million cups of tea. We went up another 9 storeys to 220m sky deck viewing platform. We then went down to 182m to the sky lounge, relaxing with a glass of wine whilst watching people throwing themselves off the top of the building.

Sky Tower at Night

We walked round town for a bit, went into a pub for some lunch. We both had our hair cut (well needed) then had to run for the bus, as we realised it was the last one going back for the next 2 hours, just made it as we made the driver open his doors at the traffic lights.
We had to pack our rucksacks when we got back to the van - difficult to fit it all in after 4 weeks in the van!

June 9
We were up early to clean the van out and get it back to Kea. We were greeted by a speeding fine for James - costing $80 (doing 65 in a 50 limit). The bright side is because he is foreign, he doesn't get any points - its good here! They also wanted to charge us for 3 chips in the windscreen at $85 per chip, we managed to negotiate this and only ended up paying for one! Even though when a lorry had gone past it pummeled us and created about 30-40 chips, oh well!
Jen picked us up and we headed out of Auckland.

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James & Tracey on June 8, 2007 from Auckland, New Zealand

from the travel blog: James & Tracey World Tour

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