Auckland Museum

Je suis arrivee a Auckland le 31, vers 9h du soir. J'ai passe toute la journee dans le bus a dormir car la veille je suis sortie avec l'israelienne, l'allemande et deux autres allemands (oui, il y a des allemands partout en NZ). Impossible de resister aux sorties a Wellington !


L'auberge de jeunesse est tres grande, j'ai eu un peu de …

Our 13.5 hour flight was fine as we managed to sleep for a few hours of it. I was surprised the seats were so crammed together though - I thought they would have to give a little more leg room for long haul flights.
After a refreshing nap at our hotel, we visited the nearby Holy Trinity Cathedral. It was right next to the old wooden cathedral ( …

Weather was too choppy for us to go on the boat today, so we headed in to Auckland CBD to Auckland Museum. Read up about the Mauri culture and saw how they lived. As well as seeing carvings that would take years to do.

After we went to Sky Tower. A glass bottom elevator took us up to 186m. Then another took us to 220m. You could see …

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Maandag heerlijk een dag helemaal niks gedaan. Lekker met z'n allen bij het vuur gezeten, en de wirlpools onveilig gemaakt. De tijd vloog echt voorbij die dag, maar ja aan alles komt een einde dus ook aan deze dag. Helaas moesten Veronica en ik de volgende ochtend afscheid nemen van de rest. Wij gaan namelijk weer terug naar …

After landing, we went to the Nga Whare Waatea marae, a relegious and cultural center, where we had a talk and round table discussion on modern Maori life, as well as a light lunch. In late afterrnoon, we checked into the hotel, the Rendezvous Hotel Aukland, see MAP, GPS(36 51 10.62S, 174 45 37.52E). The hotel was centrally located in a fairly …

woke up and saw the weather was ****, we decided to head towards the museum, we got the bus up to the top of the city, spend nearly all day in the museum, watched a Maori culture show really good they did the scary Haka dance, good tosee the real thing. we then went all the way round making sure not to miss one thing, got so many pictures of …

So....The weekend we have been looking forward to for months is just about to come to an end. We have had the most amazing three days with Gemma and hopefully she loved it too!

Almost everyone we have met in NZ has been lovely, welcoming, friendly and some will stay our friends for a long time. However there is a lot to be said for being …

On Monday, we are leaving Auckland after staying here for 2 weeks. Quite a lot has been going on since we last wrote - we had planned to have a week of tourism this week, and managed to do a bit... I have lost track of the days (always a good sign) but at some point we visited the Auckland SkyTower, which gives a nice view of the city with all its …

We woke up and again went to the continental breakfast. After two other days of being told the breakfast included cold items only, we find out that hot items are also included! Tomorrow we will be eating eggs, hash browns, and bacon!

We had some time to kill before our Bush and Beach tour. We took a cab from the hotel to the Auckland …

Fran and I finally arrived in Auckland and met up with Ken and Veronica two hours later than planned after our flight from Sydney was delayed due to an illness on the previous flight and traumatised crew members. On arrival our tent got sent off for a biosecurity check – Fran worrying we might be fined as we'd not ticked that we had …

... mainly aimed at children, Kim and I unashamedly still had a great time!   The afternoon was spent wandering the grand Auckland museum, although all parties were starting to feel a little weary from a frantic few days of sight-seeing.   ...

... ‘last night before back to proper travelling’ dinner. We didn’t do much other than drink coffee in Auckland but we did make it to the big museum up on the Domain which is pretty cool. Some more Moari stuff and a big WWII area. ...

... in. We were expecting NZ in general to be a bit behind the times but Auckland is a really fashionable place. While in Auckland we visited the museum, walked round some of the parks and went to Waiheke Island for a day (see photos above hopefully if I can ...

... her husband Ronnie.  It was really nice to meet some more distant family members and we spent the evening chatting about the family, New Zealand, our travels, and dogs (both my mum & dad and Wendy & Ronnie have a great love for dogs).  ...

... our way through the city. Despite our urban surroundings, we were granted one last surprise walk through a lush New Zealand forest when we entered Auckland Domain. It had been many days since we’d been within the woods, and I nearly cried at the ...

... afternoon. I met Lisa and Jackie outside base at 9.30am we all piled into her car after a ciggie and chat and headed towards Auckland Museum, I hadn't seen this on my last stop here. For a $5 donation you gain entry-Thanks auntie Jackie. The Museum was a ...

After talking to Scott, I found out that in Auckland there was a place called Kelly Tarlton's Antarctic and underwater adventure and that you could see loads of penguins there and that they were really close. So after a spell in the internet café I ...

... breakfast we walk down to the car rental company to hear what the damage will be! Check out our remaining flights at Air New Zealand before walking up Queens Street to the highest tower in the Southern Hemisphere, The Skytower. On the way back we look ...

... landscape. To be fair though the critics are probably right Auckland is not the most beautiful city in the world, apparently not even New Zealand, but we loved the Museum, it was the highlight of the day and well worth a few hours of anyone’s ...

... us (the shame dirty boots). Thankfully that was about the worst of it and after another scan of the bags we were officially in New Zealand. Another mishap was that our bank card didn’t work in any of the ATM’s and therefore we were ...