Ashton and I went to the Sky Tower for the first time last night. It was amazing. The Sky Tower is the tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere and at the top there is a restaurant that spins around giving an amazing view of the entire city and miles beyond over ocean and land. It was phenomenal. There was not a bad seat or view in there!
Sky Tower Facts:
--Sky Tower has three circular public observation levels - Sky Deck, Main Observation level and Sky Lounge - from each of which you can get a 360-degree view of Auckland.
--Three glass-fronted elevators can take 225 people to the observation levels every 15 minutes. The elevators travel at 18km per hour and the ride takes only 40 seconds.**There is a glass bottom in the elevator so you can see the ground getting smaller as you go up! It is crazy!
--There are 1,267 steps from the base of Sky Tower to Sky Deck. It would take someone 29 minutes to reach Sky Deck walking at 4km (2.5 mph)
--On a clear day you can see approximately 82 kilometres (51 miles) from Sky Tower.
--During one Sky Tower Vertical Challenge race a contestant ran up over 1000 steps in only five minutes and 17 seconds.
--At 328 metres tall Sky Tower stands above any other tower in the Southern Hemisphere and is the 12th tallest tower in the world (taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris or Sydney's AMP Tower). Sky Tower is about as tall as 37 buses end on end!
--Sky Tower weighs 21 million kilos (20,000 tonnes) which is equivalent to 6,000 elephants.
--It took two years and nine months to build Sky Tower.
2 comments:
Sounds like a great place to visit!
you both look so great together. did you get dizzy while the place was spinning?
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