Terracotta Warriors

The Sky Tower, as visitors to the website will have found out, is a small part of Sky city, a hub of shops, restaurants, and many more places to part you from you money, I think there is a hotel there somewhere as well. Our visit to Auckland happened, by chance, to coincide with a visit from the Terracotta Warriors, the Sky casino was the setting for the warriors, and they had a few rooms and a corridor to themselves. Mind you I think they missed a photo opportunity of a Terracotta warrior next to a games machine, or is that just me? Anyway. The advantage of the warriors being in the casino meant I was able to take photographs galore and get up really close to the warriors themselves. The display was superb but not large. The organisers had evidently tried to lengthen the experience and therefore make it seem more value for money by adding a lot of story boards concerning the warriors. It was a fascinating history, but it seemed to me obviously contrived to make the experience lon ger. The warriors had a room to themselves. They were on the the floor so it was possible to see exactly how tall they are. All in all it was a fantastic opportunit y, although sadly short.