In order to see as much of Auckland as possible while in the city, we decided to do the coast-to-coast walk starting at the Viaduct Harbour and ending at the Onehunga Foreshore. The idea of this walk is to be able to say that you “walked across New Zealand,” as you’re technically going from the northern shore of the country to the southern shore.

It would’ve gone a lot faster if we just took a straight route to the end, but we wanted to see as many notable landmarks on the way as possible, so we took a bit of a zig-zag pattern and spent 4 hours and 40 minutes completing the walk. The total distance was about 10.8 miles (17.4 kilometers) and had an elevation gain of about 1,476 feet (450 meters).

As part of the hike, we cut through Mount Eden and One Tree Hill, both of which I covered in their own blog posts—“Hello, Maungawhau in Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand” and “Hello, Cornwall Park and Maungakiekie in Auckland, New Zealand”—published in the past two days.

For photos from everything else that didn’t fall under those two general areas, I picked out some highlights from the adventure below: