Sky Tower
Sky Tower stands at 328 metres,the Burj Tower in Dubai measures in at 818 metres! Buildings seem to be getting taller again! So, anyway, today we decided to venture into Auckland for an adventure!
Sky Deck
We made it up to the top level of Sky Tower ! The tallest free standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere!
To the very top!
Sky jumper!
It's called 'Sky Deck' and you have to go in a glass elevator to get there, glass door, glass floor...
Through a section of the glass floor
It's quite disorientating on the first level, the Observation Deck. Lots of silly tourists posing on the glass floors and people jumping off the top and stopping on the way down to wave at you!
Made my stomach feel funny watching.
View of One Tree Hill and Auckland City
A separate lift takes you even further up, to Sky deck, which revolves and has 360 degree views of Auckland - it was fabulous!
Don't the cars look small?
I can now add it to my list of Towers.. Eiffel Tower, Sky Tower, Kuala Lumpur Tower (that was 452 metres!), Tower of London, Leaning Tower of Pisa, St Mark's Tower - for someone who's scared of heights, it's not bad!
You could jump into the swimming pool!
View of Harbour bridge
View of Maritime Museum and Harbour
Trivia:
During the year of Sky Tower's construction - the driver of the crane, going up and down for that time, would have travelled the same distance as climbing Mt Everest 4.5 times!
It uses 51,600 watts of light power at night, to look pretty!
View from the Observation Deck
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