Plus appréciés Attractions à Auckland

From Queen Street walk up Vulcan Lane to enter Auckland's "fashion central." The narrow and sometimes cobbled streets and alleyways are home to some of New Zealand's top designer labels including Kate Sylvester, Karen Walker, Zambesi and World. Bring all of your credit cards and check out top international labels such as Versace, in the new and very chic Chancery pedestrian mall. Chanel-suited women trot alongside gray office workers and designer dressed-down students - there's a bustling sidewalk café or restaurant to match all styles. Cross Victoria Street onto Lorne Street, for a more Bohemian flavor, including cool second-hand book stores and New Zealand-made arts and crafts. Turn left at the end of Lorne Street, past the New Gallery and the Auckland Art Gallery. Head back along Kitchener Street to complete a loop of Auckland's finest exhibiting art galleries. It must be time for that coffee back on High Street!

Adjacent to the University of Auckland, Albert Park is a fine example of a Victorian-era municipal park, complete with formal gardens, band rotunda, fountain, statues and flowered clock. The Albert Barracks were here--hence the military gun installation! Free concerts, usually sponsored by b-FM, the University's alternative radio station, are held at the rotunda on summer weekends. Albert Park is also a popular lunch break destination for Auckland's office workers, who make the trek uphill from Queen Street, just two blocks away.

Featuring a tropical glass house built in 1929, a cool house and a sunken fernery built in the remains of a disused scoria quarry, the Wintergardens is a "must-see" when visiting Auckland Domain. Featuring ever-changing collections of temperate and tropical plants, the gardens feature a formal courtyard with a lily pond and extensive displays of succulents, cycads and tropical orchids. The Fernz Fernery provides a lush green welcome escape from the heat on a summer's afternoon. Across the road from the Wintergarden is a popular tea house and kiosk.

The Rose Gardens and Dove Myer Robinson Park are sited above Judges Bay, sloping downwards with pleasant shaded pathways and numerous fine old mature trees. There is a great lookout over the harbor and the busy container wharves, from the cliff-top edge. The Rose Gardens contain some 4,500 roses. The Nancy Steen Cottage Garden with old-fashioned roses and white flowers is especially attractive, and occasional outdoor concerts are held here in summer. Note the old stone archway at one end known as the Elephant!

L’un des plus grands cônes de scorie du champ volcanique d’Auckland, le mont Éden s’élève à 196 mètres d’altitude et abrite trois cratères avec de vastes vestiges terrestres de stockage, défensifs et d’habitation. Appelé « Maungawhau » (colline de l’arbre whau) en maori, le mont Éden est le principal poste de triangulation de la région. Accessible par la route et à pied, il offre des vues imprenables sur Auckland jusqu’au golfe d’Hauraki et au-delà. Venez en bus ou marchez 15 minutes depuis la gare ferroviaire. À proximité, la Government House accueille chaque année le Summer Matinee Concert de l’orchestre philharmonique d’Auckland.

Planted 35 years ago by local horticultural enthusiasts in an abandoned quarry on the flanks of Mt. Eden, Eden Gardens is a 2.25 hectare showpiece. The park features mature trees and flowering shrubs with special collections of camellias, azaleas and rhododendrons. A café on site serves light refreshments and Devonshire teas; the latter are considered a specialty. The garden is set up so that there are plants blooming every month of the year.