Friday, January 13, 2012

Auckland

Last day in New Zealand. Days ago, we booked a whale watching tour as a final experience of our vacation. Before we started walk to harbour we got up the Skytower to have a full 360° view over Auckland.










On the way to the top of the city we had to pass another Weta store at the entrance (elevator) of Skytower - and we swept away into world of shown attractions ...



Back on the bottom, we explored city on the way to harbour. There are a lot of shops at Queen Street.





Our frustration was so big, as they told us at whale-watching office counter, that our trip was canceled coused on rough sea. Most visitors would get seasick, so what?!?

Puuuhhh, that was not really planned indeed - and we were really sad. Even the fact, that the friendly woman at the counter put us on bookinglist for next day generated any joy. Now we had more than 5 hours which we had not expected to have ... and what do speed addicted people when they have time? Right! Get the next kick. We entered office of Scream Machine Ride, which is similar to Shotover Jet Ride in Queenstown - just in harbour and on open sea.



Well I have to say - this was not that thrilling ride as we had in Queenstown, but after 40 minutes, we were completely wet from tip to toe. Having lunch at a sunny place on esplanade of harbour to get clothes dry, we moved back to hotel and started second shopping tour on the way :-)

Finally the moment we were afraid of appeared - packing suitcase for leaving New Zealand...











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