*Kara says: We took a nice walk through downtown Auckland, seeing what the city has to offer. One of the last stops was the art museum- Auckland Art Gallery! It had a really fun Olafur Eliasson exhibition that was interactive, and a surprisingly large collection of Goya prints. In my opinion the best part of the museum is the collection of beautiful and realistic portraits of elderly Maori by Charles F Goldie. It was a nice ramble, and one of the most notable things about Auckland are the beautiful parks! There are so many and they are beautiful.*
We found an AMAZING park in the middle of the city called Western Park. You think it's just a small grassy area at first, and then you get on the grass and walk to an edge and look down and it's just this vast hill with wild-growing old trees and windy paths. And that's not even Auckland's main park! (It also has some cool sculptures- chunks of buildings that look like they're growing out of the ground- which are not pictured here but can be seen here).