Nearly every city has a high building, a tower, or a large Ferris wheel.
London had the London eye
Paris has the Eiffel tower
The Galata in Istanbul
The CN Tower in Toronto
The towers of San Gimignano
Pisa has a leaning tower
We’ve managed to see all of the above bar the Galata in Istanbul. One day we might get there.
But, on this side of the world, there are two, the Sydney Tower, and the Sky Tower in Auckland, which we just visited recently.
It’s not a tall tower, but it definitely gives great vies of Auckland, particularly to the north
The mountain in the background at the top of the photo is of a volcano on Rangitoto Island. When we were visiting, there were reports that it might become active again.
To give a height perspective, it didn’t seem all that far down to the apartment building and gardens nearby.
Thrills, Spills, and just a dash of Romance 
You’d wonder why people build towers. Might it be to be able to look further away? Or to be able to look down upon other people? Or, as it was with the first tower that was built, to be so high as to be able to survive an extreme flooding. Result was the prevention of the finishing of the building of that tower through mixing up the language of mankind, so that they didn’t understand one another anymore. The groups of people who did understand one another dispersed into furious directions and formed the the first races of people in the world. Amazing story, isn’t it?
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