POST OFFICE & TELEPHONE FACILITIES The Post NOTES Office is located at City Post Shop in the Citibank Building at 23 Customs Street, a 10-12 minute walk from the © 2008 maps.com © 2008 maps.com wharf. Auckland T a uranga There are phone booths situated on the wharf, which accept a NORTH ISLAND credit cards and calling cards. The Visitors sman Se Ta Information Centre sells phone cards. Dial the following access NEW ZEALAND numbers to place a call with your personal calling card: AT&T: 000.911 PORT EXPLORER MCI: 000.912 SOUTH ISLAND SPRINT: 000.999 n

TOURIST INFORMATION The Visitors Information Centre Fiordland National Park Pacific Ocea Auckland is located at the Ground Floor, 21 Pitt Street, Auckland. NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORTATION All Auckland taxi drivers are required to belong to a registered taxi company. This means you can GENERAL INFORMATION Wellington may HISTORY Two distinct phases can describe New Zealand’s history: expect a vehicle that meets a defined standard of cleanliness, be New Zealand’s capital but Auckland is the most the pre-European phase and the phase since Europeans arrived in the safety and comfort. Prices don’t vary much between the important city and is the country’s major gateway area. New Zealand’s original inhabitants were known as the , companies. Taxis can be flagged down, ordered by phone for ship and air traffic moving between Oceania an early wave of migrants from Polynesia around 800 AD. The reasons or picked up at a Taxi stand. Exploring Auckland by bus is and North or South America. Auckland is also for those first long ocean voyages in dugout canoes are still unknown convenient, economical and fun. The all day Bus About pass designated as the largest city in the country with but they found large temperate islands with abundant sea life to sustain is a great value for intrepid explorers and the free buzz-a-bus nearly 1.3 million residents. Built atop a cluster of their groups. telephone timetable service offers superb advice in an instant. extinct volcanoes, the municipality is located on a As more tribes migrated to the islands, the volcanic cones surrounding The Link bus service runs both ways in a circuit around the constricted isthmus that helps the landscape blend the region were speckled with pas (fortified settlements). In 1840 when attractions of the inner city rim. These distinctive white buses nicely with the city’s modern skyline. the earliest Europeans arrived in the region, the area was almost deserted charge a single fare regardless of your destination on the circuit. Auckland has a reputation of being old-fashioned and due to the tribal wars and epidemics that had plagued the settlements. Another bus option is the double-decker Auckland Explorer traditional which visitors find refreshing. The polite The capital of New Zealand has been moved several times in its history. Bus, offering all day sightseeing with commentary. It visits manner of the local people and the cleanliness of the The 1840 had New Zealand’s first Governor, Captain Victoria Park Market, Kelly Tarlton’s, the Auckland Museum, streets are what help to keep visitors returning year , moving the capital south to a more central location. Parnell, the American Express New Zealand Cup Village and after year. Auckland were hosts to the “Americas The new site was selected because of its good harbor and excellent Sky City Casino. For a set fee you can hop on and off the Cup,” the most revered trophy in the sport of yachting. planting soil. The new capital was named after the Governor’s former Explorer Bus as many times as you want in one day. With Team New Zealand’s’ win over Italy’s Prada commander, Lord Auckland, who was a famed British hero and then, Challenge in March of 2000, this country became the the current Viceroy of India. Auckland experienced many set backs USEFUL WORDS & PHRASES The language spoken first to successfully defend the Cup outside the U.S. and failures in its early days. So many that the settlement only held is English; however, Maori greetings are finding increased The Cup activity around Auckland’s waterfront has the title of capital for 25 years before it was moved further south to popularity. Here are a few phrases: transformed the area into one of the most fashionable Wellington in 1865. Later in the century Auckland was resuscitated Hello • Kia ora eating areas in the city, which was already renowned with a gold rush in Thames and a significant increase in the area’s Good bye • Haere ra for its International restaurants. agricultural production. Wellington may have stolen the title of capital Welcome • Haere mai! from Auckland but today she holds the title of the fastest growing city Very well, thank you, ok • Kei te pai in New Zealand. Auckland is also the main industrial and commercial Thank you • Ka pai center dominating the country. How are you? • Kei te pehea koe? Woman • wahine Ocean • wainui

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