04/03/14 : AUCKLAND, HERE WE ARE

Day 27, Papakura - Auckland ( about 35km)

This last day on the saddle toward Auckland isn't the best we had. Indeed, the traffic jam is extremely heavy since we are getting closer of Auckland, the biggest city in NZ.

Most of the time, we have to ride on the sidewalk so it could be safer for us to go on. As a matter of fact, some NZ drivers are very mad on the road. 

Fields and forests we used to see before got overthrown by asphalts fields and cements forest. Little by little, The Artificial is taking over the Natural.

After several hours biking, we achieved at least our last step : get to Auckland. We are very proud of ourselves.

Auckland is a big city (1 377 000 people), similar to all the big recent cities we may find in Australia, Canada or USA. To my mind, it doesn't have anything special though, but somehow, the atmosphere is fairly appreciable.

On the evening, we come back to Papakura to sleep at Trevor's studio. We get back there in train which is much more quicker.

Tomorow we will deal with selling our push bikes along with doing a last visit of the city. At the same time, we will do some shopping.