Sky Tower is a New Zealand icon.
It is an observation and telecommunications tower in Auckland City and is 328 metres (1,076 ft) tall, and therefore, the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, and the 12th tallest tower in the world!
It took two and a half years to build and opened in 1997.
It's designed to withstand earthquakes up to 8.0 on the Richter scale and hurricane winds, although it has been closed down once, since we got here, in the dreadful storms (see previous blog).
I have never been up it, but the girls have, with their grandma.
It has a glass lift, which takes you to the top - and I mean glass - top, walls, floor... ugh! I wouldn't manage that!
If you have the appetite for it, you can eat at the restaurant once you're up there - a revolving restaurant, (360 degrees in an hour.)
Of course, being New Zealand, you can bungy jump off it; and for the less brave, base jump off it..
At night it is illuminated all different colours and looks really beautiful.
I hadn't realised until recently that the colours it lit up at night signified special events!
For example, it shines red & Gold for the Chinese New Year, orange during the Auckland Festival, green on St. Patrick's Day, pink when it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and it was illuminated gold during the Olympics!
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