After that lavish Japanese lunch that day, we continued with our tour and our first stop was at the Nancy Steen Rose Garden…
They have all kinds of roses there in an array of colours including these purple ones…
After that, we proceeded to the Michael Joseph Savage Memorial Park…
I remember I had been there before during my 2005 visit to Auckland…
…but it was good to be back there again one more time…
…as it was indeed a very nice place…
…and like the others around, you get to relax and enjoy the breathtaking scenery…
Moving on from there, we went to what they call the Auckland Domain where the Auckland Museum is located…
…and also the Winter Garden…
I love the Temperate Garden in one enormous glasshouse for inside, one would find all kinds of colourful flowers…
…and plants…
…some that one would never have seen before…
We spent a long time there admiring everything around us and taking photographs…
…before we went out the back entrance into the courtyard…
Right ahead is the Tropical Garden…
My missus and Melissa and the rest went but they said that inside, there were things that we could easily find in our jungles in Malaysia and it was very hot. HOT??? No, thank you! I certainly had no intention of going over there and experience what we can easily have back home. LOL!!!
Well, like all the rest that we had been to over the past few days during our stay in Auckland, we certainly had a wonderful time going to all these captivatingly beautiful and interesting places and we have my friend and her family to thank for that. Frankly, if we were to join a conducted tour, I wonder how many of all those places would they take us to – not all, I’m pretty sure…and I can bet that we would not even have half the fun!
Nice & breathtaking scenery. Wow, really love the flowers. So colourful and it makes my day as beautiful as the flowers.
Yes, so much nicer going there in the spring and the summer. Winter’s grey and gloomy…rather depressing.
Love all the photos.. Very beautiful!! Nice and lovely!!
Jom!!! Let’s plan a trip there sometime! It will be so much fun!
those flowers especially that first one were really lovely!
iv’e always wanted to go on such place
Certainly different from out tropical countries…
your photographs were superbly amazing suituapui
keep it up
Thanks, Sure will…
Wise decision! Never go with tour unless you really have no idea where to go and no time to plan itinerary! :p
Yup…or when you don’t know anybody at the place where you’re going. Conducted tours often commercialised, taking you to places where they have connections…and it is always a case of waiting…and waiting…and waiting…for people who don’t give a damn that they’re late and everybody else is waiting. Tsk! Tsk!
pretty plants and flowers! whenever i get tired of being around human beings (heheh), it’s nice to seek solace amid nature, where we can just relax and soak in the beauty of flora
Ya, peace and quiet all around…nice, cool weather, fresh clean air, breathtaking scenery…where to find in KL? From this point of view, I really loved it there. So very nice.
I love the glass house! Wish I had one, a mini one will do. I can sit there the whole day admiring those flowers. Hahaha…
You can have an air-conditioned one and plant all the temperate flowers and plants. So nice. Hehehehehe!!!!
Even weeds look pretty in the spring here
Love the grass there…so nice, like freshly-mowed everyday.
If you go on tour, you’ll just be sheperded to lots of places without much time to savour the places and get to know it more.
That’s right. I hate it when they bring you places where they try to sell you things…
Yes, conducted tours do not have such places to go to and most importantly, they don’t supply such GOOD FOOD! hahahaha…
Definitely. I hate how they take you to Chinese restaurants to eat Chinese food – if I wanted our own food, I would just stay at home. Tsk! Tsk!
Look at the big grassy field! Feel like just wanna lay down there… hehe..
Ya, I wonder why the grass does not seem to grow long anywhere – like freshly-mowed. Melissa loved sitting on it and having her photos taken…
Lots of nice photos, always find the sceneries abroad much more breathtaking than our local ones.
I guess they think the same of ours – the other man’s grass is always greener.
wow, photographs getting better and better. I must learn from you!
Same leh? Yours even nicer…
chocolates with affogato! i reckon chocolates in NZ shouldn’t be cheap as well, i remember i had mine at perth, they were like aud 2 each….
Nope, nothing’s cheap there…but yes, we can get some at those prices e.g. Cadbury…not the “branded” ones though. For one thing, they’re creamier and melt easily…not like ours – will stay hard for a long time despite the heat here.
Beautiful shots buddy!
Temperate and tropical house…I reckon that would be like Malaysia, but in NZ, ducking into a humid greenhouse when it’s cold would be mighty tempting. I get the urge to blast the heater during cold winters in Christchurch too.
Not me! I love putting on three or more sweaters and jumping under the blanket… Can’t stand the heater – makes me feel kind of sick. I love it cold though! Sigh!!! Definitely born in the wrong place.
Beautiful roses and flowers! That would be the first thing I want to see if I go to NZ
Then you must not go in the autumn or the winter then…
The roses there very cantik. Not like cameron highland ones.
Anyway, is that bulu/ulat thingy black in color or is it just shadow?
It is black! Just like ulat bulu…dan benda2 yang serupa dengannya!!!! Hehehehehe!!!!
Wow…a very nice place with beautiful flowers. A very nice place to spend the weekend with family.
That’s for sure. Every place seems so very beautiful there. Loved it heaps!!!!
gorgeous roses!! NZ is simply such a scenic place… I dont think I will ever get tired of the gorgeous scenery there….
Lovely in spring, summer and even autumn…winter’s grey and gloomy and very depressing.
The first time I heard of WInter Gardens in glass houses was in Pennsylvania during my student days. I didn’t bother to step inside too until the middle of the brutal winter when snow was thick and 4 feet deep. I missed home and the sunny days, so I promptly went inside the Winter Gardens which made me cry! LOL.
And did you break out in song – singing “Winter Sonata”? Sobsss!!! Sobsss!!! So touching, your drama! LOL!!!
I really love the scenery and I want to go there just to take photos!!!
NZ is indeed a picturesque country – beautiful, will take your breath away!
we tend to cover more places on our own 2 feet than tours…i prefer it that way. my last official tour was unfortunately in nanning but almost all other countries in the last 12 years has been on our own.
Before we had our daughter, we went on conducted tours – nice and easy…no plans to go any place specific, just followed. With my daughter, our time was no longer our own – so we went on holidays on our own…to not very far places – places like Singapore or Langkawi or nearer.