We always wanted to see some of New Zealand's attractions, so today we decided to take a look at The Sky Tower. 

The Sky Tower is both an obersavation and telecommuncations tower in Auckland. It is approximately 328 metres tall from ground level to the top of the mast. The Sky Tower is the 15th tallest member of the Worlds Federation of Great Towers, and has become an iconic structure in Auckland's skyline. The tower attracts lots of tourists almost an average of 1,450 visitors per day. The upper side of the tower has a revolving resturang. Me and Ramin didn't mind eating there because we were getting hungry from the bus trip, so we had a lunch break in the resturant. The resturant is located 190m from the ground, and it is turning 360 degrees once every hour. You can also find a brasserie style buffet which is located one floor above the main observatory level. The Sky Tower has over three different observation decks at different heights and all of them turns 360 degrees once a hour. The tower also haves the "SkyJump" and it is a 192-metre jump from the observation deck which means that a jumper can reach up to 85km/h. The jump is a guide-cable-controlled preventing jumpers from colliding with the tower of wind gusts. The tower is also used for broadcasting with APE (Auckland Peering Exchange), which is located on level 48. The top of the tower hosts the largest FM combiner in the world.

We left the tower and when we were outside I turned around and looked at the tower and asked Ramin if he knows anything about the construction, and ofcourse he didn't know about know anything about it.

The Sky Tower is designed to hold strong winds in a speed of 200km/h and also resist earthquakes. From many tests and results it shows that an earthquake centered 40 kilometres away and reaching 7.0 on the Richter magniture scale will leave the tower undamaged. Even if a earthquake could have a magnitude of 8.0 the tower wouldn't collapse. The Sky Tower also feature something that I really really like, if you go out at night you will see that the tower lids up.

The lighting of the tower promotes various causes using a number of colours. here are some of the examples:

Blue = Auckland Blues Rugby franchise

 Pink = Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Red & Green = 'Kidz First' Childrens Hospital/Christmas

Red & Gold = Chinese New Year

Blue & Green = Starship Children's Foundation

Orange = Auckland Festival

Green & Purple = The Auckland Cup

Green = St. Patrick's Day

Red = The America's Cup

Green, Red and White = Rally New Zealand

Gold = New Zealand Olympians at the XXIX Olympiad

Blue & Red space = Matariki

No lighting = Earth Hour

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