From Santiago, we had a 13h plane journey that brought us across the international dateline to Auckland. The flight began on a Saturday night and we arrived early Monday morning. So we lost Sunday November 16th. I wonder if that means i am technically a day younger??
After the first view hours in Auckland, i had a nice vibe about the country. The people are so friendly and so laid back, that nothing is a hassle to them. Catriona from work had arrived in Auckland a couple of days before with her friends. We managed to meet up with them and headed down to the Sky Tower. It's the tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere and here was our first taste of the extreme sports that the Kiwis are famed for. If you so wished you could get harnessed to the outside of the building, 220m in the air. You are strapped in so you are horizontal and facing the ground. The harness is lowered and you approach a platform on the ground at a rather fast speed. None of us were brave enough to try though we did take the elevator up to the viewing deck at the same height. The floor at the edge of this deck is made of glass and you can see all the way to the road below. A very funny feeling! There is a ticker tape that operates in the viewing deck to notify the viewers when a jumper is about to go. Suddenly you see a person in a blue and yellow jumpsuit passing by the window, that's quite surreal.
After the first view hours in Auckland, i had a nice vibe about the country. The people are so friendly and so laid back, that nothing is a hassle to them. Catriona from work had arrived in Auckland a couple of days before with her friends. We managed to meet up with them and headed down to the Sky Tower. It's the tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere and here was our first taste of the extreme sports that the Kiwis are famed for. If you so wished you could get harnessed to the outside of the building, 220m in the air. You are strapped in so you are horizontal and facing the ground. The harness is lowered and you approach a platform on the ground at a rather fast speed. None of us were brave enough to try though we did take the elevator up to the viewing deck at the same height. The floor at the edge of this deck is made of glass and you can see all the way to the road below. A very funny feeling! There is a ticker tape that operates in the viewing deck to notify the viewers when a jumper is about to go. Suddenly you see a person in a blue and yellow jumpsuit passing by the window, that's quite surreal.
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