Just to start where I left off. So on Friday night (Day 8), we left for Auckland on the NakedBus about 5:30pm. NakedBus is the name of the company and no, no one was naked! This seems to be the cheapest bus transportation to travel instead of taking intercity buses, taxis or even the plane. Prices start from just $1 and up, if you are lucky enough and the first person to book online to a place, your ride is a $1 plus whatever fee. Anyways we waited out in the cold night for the bus to arrive, there were also other people waiting as well. The bus finally arrived and we were off for 2 hours heading to Auckland. The bus was full and there were many other people from other areas. So I pretty much watch whatever show was playing on the screen or just sleep.
It was 8:00pm and we arrived in Auckland city! YEA!!! So, this is the backpacking. It is mostly used for visitors or student who just travel with a huge backpack. So we went to find out what was the cheapest place to stay, got a map and directions from this nice huge hotel. So we was hungry and went to eat dinner. So we saw this international food place. Talk about international, heaps (choke) of food! Foods like Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai...those kine foods. So we ate, I had a miso soup and my left over cold Chinese food. After that, we set off to find a place to stay for the weekend. We found a place called Queens Backpackers. It was cheap and was like ok sure! The five of us (4 Hawaiians & 1 from Jersey) each payed $50. A room with a bunk bed, 1 pillow, 1 bed sheet and 1 fleece blanket. So the girls were in 1 room and us guys was in another. We settled in and went walking the streets of Auckland. Pretty huge city will tall buildings. Came back and went sleep. It was a freezing cold nite! One thing we didn't check was if they had heaters!!! So we were cold and freezing while we were sleeping hows dat one?! Really thought they would have heaters or something? The windows were also thin, so you cold hear people outside yelling and the music from the club not from just like downstairs the next building over blasting!
The next day we heading for the Auckland Museum. But before that, we went to Burger King for a quick breakfast. Things here are pretty expensive. Lots of things in Aotearoa are pretty expensive. It cost us $20 to watch the Māori Cultural performance for 1/2 hour and look around the museum. Walked around the special exhibit they had and then headed off to the Māori performance. It was really awesome, but short. See the pictures and the videos! After the performance went around the Māori exhibit and then to the Pacific exhibit. So lots of cool amazing things, there were also things from Hawaiʻi. A kapa, Kauaʻi style pōhaku kuʻi ʻai, niho palaoa, a thing made out of the snout of pigs I'm guessing, I don't know what it is called in Hawaiian and I also saw an ahuʻula. Don't know who's ahuʻula it is?! All of these can be seen, just check out my pictures.
We then had sushi for lunch. Ono! We then caught the link aka the bus around the city and we saw lots of buildings, also the University of Auckland. Anyways we got off and went to the Skytower! It is tall! It is over 1,076 ft! So since we were backpackers and students, we payed $18. Dis Hawaiian has never been any higher then idk feet but went up as high as 610 feet to the main observation deck. Awesome! To see the whole city (see pictures for more information and to see it!) They also have were people can jump off and walk around outside at a higher rate and feet! We stayed there till about sunset. Nice to see the sun set really have! After that, went't back to the room and headed to a restaurant/pub to watch the rugby game! All Blacks vs South Africa! Was awesome though, we all ate a full filling meal and got to watch the cool game of rugby! ALL BLACKS WON!!! CHEE!!! Hoping to catch at least one game live in the stadium!
Was pretty tired so I went hiamoe!
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