Today was a chance to see a little more of the city by doing the city bus tour. We learnt a bit more about the city and passed by many places of interest which we would have loved to explore if we had had more time – there is a really good transport museum and aquarium and lots of parks and green spaces. The first stop we made was to visit Mount Eden. This is Aukland’s highest volcano which is no longer active (last eruption was 28,000 years ago. We followed a curving path and a lot of steps to the summit where we got views of the crater and spectacular views of the city and its surrounding. By zooming in with our cameras we could see people jumping off the sky tower. We resumed the bus tour passing by the zoo and made our next stop the Auckland War Memorial Museum. We had a quick lunch here and then explored the museum for a couple of hours. The ground floor was about Auckland life and Māori and Polynesian history and art which was our principal interest here. Upstairs we had a quick Look at the natural history section with some interesting fossils, more about New Zealand’s flightless bird and a reconstruction of the giant Moa bird.
