 Hello everyone this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com. You are watching one of my New Zealand travel videos and today I'll show you some roadside scenes in Auckland. In the very beginning of the video some scenes were taken outside Auckland when I was returning from the white remote lower Caves. New Zealand is a country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean made of two main islands, North and South Island. Thank you for watching this video. Forget about subscribing to this channel, forget about liking this video. There will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly. Pretty much in earthquake volcanic countries always has been, always probably will be. But probably in more recent history after the events of Christchurch and Kaukura. And of course Christchurch was never an earthquake city. We're in the centre now with the increase in the value that they're becoming more worthwhile to do up there. My carers got a lovely eclectic group of shops and cafes and restaurants and I'm hoping they don't sanitise and gentrify the area too much because I quite like this time of the morning it's actually a bit quiet. It's sort of the evening time since it comes alive really. It's Verona cafe just on the right here. It's not even open yet so happening to all place in the evening. And then just here on the right there we are looks St. Kevin's arcade and it's it's got a wonderful collection of retro shops and a delightful cafe down the end of it. We renovated all of those bigger buildings now and get turned into apartments once all that strengthening work now so you know making these buildings a little bit safer to work or live in. The park on the right is called Western Park. It has a very much an art focus to it. They have some wonderful art events in there. The bits of building you see sticking out of the ground down here they're not the remnants of an earthquake or anything that's actually a permanent art installation. And just here at the lights I hope they turn red. I'm probably the only driver in the city that hopes the lights will turn red when I want them to but that's not going to. But here up on the left this little you see at the top it says oh there we go we're not going to stop there yeah. Lord Ponsby's Antiques is probably the most run-down wooden building in the whole city now. But we're going to see a number of wooden buildings as we drive around. There'll be single story villas, double story villas and churches and they're all built out of solid carry timber that's KAU. So just on the right here is a nice example of some of these shop frontages all these connected ones and in these cases they're all protected the shop front that back of them you can't see they could knock down and build something else. The street on the right here if you look right you do get some nice views. So as I said when I first came to Alton I lived in Ponsby. It's the main part of Ponsby is down here. I was back there there's still a little bit that's what spread right down the road now. And I actually lived in a little street up here and I just want to show you the street because it's got always very old working-class houses down there. They're all very very expensive now and renovated but it's this street just here on the right take a look down there. They're all through that area actually but you just see a few down there on the left hand side all very close together no off-street parking. In fact their houses were that close together. I've got my hand at my bedroom window the neighbor could do the same if we could shake hands. Mind you back then I was a lot younger we'd have a lot of house parties would be sharing a few beers between the windows. As I said in the city houses take very bright professional people like these ones here on the left there's an accountant and lawyer on the other and where there's something they could pull down an old workshop or factory they tend to build apartments like these ones on the left but even in this area say a one-bedroom apartment would still cost you probably about 400 to 500 000 dollars. I don't know if it's going to sparkle much today but in Maori why WAI there's a lot of places around New Zealand with wine it means water because we're pretty much surrounded a lot with water and other places like you've probably heard of WAI Hickey Island or WAI Tomo Caves. In the case of WAI Tomo Caves Tomo means basically a hole in the ground and you've got WAI so it's water a water and a hole in the ground which it is it's WAI Tomo Caves. St Mary's around to the right average price here three to four million dollars on the intersection here just to the right there's a lovely little park called Point Erin Park that was originally a married pass site now a married par was sort of their version of like a fortified village and they always built them on strategic headlands and elevated areas to give them maximum winter vantage and then what they would do is around the edge of these herds they'd build wooden palisades that only finished erupting 550 years ago so not very long at all there'll be some people that try and get you to believe that the volcanic can come off the bridge up by some lights so this way we're we're heading north right now and this is the number one highway so now we're going to come down onto what we call the North Shore it's still part of Auckland we just call it the North Shore the main suburb over here is Takapuna just right ahead of us there with all the idea about it yeah there's no toll over the bridge or on the motorway the only toll system we've got is further north at the top end of this motorway it's still about 50 kms away there's a tunnel and there's a toll to go through that yeah there's ranking total but as I said we'll talk we'll be going past here a bit later on and then in between those two ships you'll see a evolving restaurant and of course we're feeling a bit brave you can do a sky jump up there or a sky walk they did offer it to me a few years ago I laughed I said you guys are going to pay me to step off here but anyway even if they paid me I don't think I Auckland is also referred to as the city of sails and it's surfing it's also where you find the Tasman Sea that's that body body of water between New Zealand and Australia and if you managed to that week I often refer to that water as the ditch you know jump the ditch and if you're statement straight line across the ditch you'd bump into that little island over there called Australia down Melbourne Way Melbourne and Auckland are on similar latitudes making 1642 unfortunately Ableton hang around too long here we've done taken out of the water give it a clean you can get it all done down here first up though down here just on the right here you see a building with a wooden lighthouse hanging on the side of it it's a very historic lighthouse and I'll show you the real one out in the harbour later it's a very historic carry lighthouse called beam rock lighthouse so it's on a rock and a reef out there now if you don't have a sailing boat and you've got a little motorboat and you've got nowhere to keep it in your inner city apartment or maybe down that street where I used to live with no off-street parking there's actually a business just here on the left I'll go nice and slide past the doorway on the left here see there's an open doorway here if you look in there and through the front windows you'll see all these stacked up motorboats on either side and there's about four or five stories high get whatever you want done to it give it a clean pop it back up on the shelf again just like your most favorite library book really now also keep in mind ever since we left the harbour bridge all this flat area that we're going to be driving over and it's quite an extensive area right and also just up to the left there you'll see a big blue coloured boat there with a big sailing mass everybody see that boat just in it's good because that's my boat