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<\/a>Auckland Museum – Maori Sculpture<\/p>\n
Heading out from the hostel, UPhill to K-Road, a hub of buses we found our bus heading to the Newmarket\/Broadway shopping streets. K-Road, Karangahape Road. Anyways. Got on the LinkBus, $1.70 ride! To the shopping district and got a nice breakfast as Massimo. Visited another Westfields shopping centre and other random shops. The unique chain shops I’ve seen have been glue, cottonon, justjeans… Meh. Again, shopping here isn’t very nice, its a bit less stressful than Australia because we’ve begun to convert currencies before purchasing hahaha… But the prices are still very similar to home but a little skewed. Dinners here range from mid 20s to 30s but converted only reach mid 20s so not that bad at all…<\/p>\n
After enough shopping we made our way to the Auckland Natural History Museum, where we could have used the knowledge and expertise of a tour guide but… Missed out. So although we saw a lot of interesting aboriginal artwork and sculptures, we don’t really know what they mean or were used for… Unfortunately. Aside from aboriginal artifacts, the museum held exhibits on the usual stuff of dinosaurs native to the land such as Kiwi bird ancestors, the Mau birds and Giant Emperor penguins… And other flightless birds. And continuing on the third floor, exhibits on WWI and WWII etc. Spent a good 2-3 hours exploring.<\/p>\n
Continuing on we headed out to Parnell Rd which we have been told would be a nice area to shop for more unique pieces… But everything was closed or closing… At 430. *sigh… After walking around and going into the shops that were open we decided to grab some dinner and got very stuffed with pizza \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
Tomorrow, renting a car and heading out to the Waitomo Caves and Rotorua.<\/p>\n