EMPIRE STATE BUILDING -NYC

Entering the Empire State Building (ESB), once again the swap at the ticket booth is made for an entry ticket using the NY Pass. The NY Pass entilted you to an Audio tour as well. They give you headphones and a remote so that you can click on certain numbers at the top of the ESB to tell you where you are and what you can see.

To make our way up to the top of the ESB we had to catch a few elevators to the top. After one of the elevator trips, we were all stuck in a queue again to get a photo taken with a fake back drop. Stupidly every one has to go through this before the next lift. When its time to get the photo taken I realised how shitty the backdrop is and there is no way on earth I would buy it.

Arriving to the top of the ESB I realised how beautiful and breath taking this city was. It reminded me of the moment in Paris when I climbed the Effiel Tower. The city looked amazing and this City does as well. I couldn't believe how beautiful NYC was.

New York is filled with high rised building. It's like every building is competing for itself. Where ever you look you have a massive tall building in front of you. For a minute I wished Sydney had this view.



I spent the next half an hour walking from one corner to the next admiring the view. Each corner had a bay number that matched on the Audio commentary. By selecting the number you would hear what you could see from looking at that point.

Taking in the view I took several shots of the NYC and listened to the commentary. This was something that I always wanted to do and I felt extremely happy to be doing this. While listening to the audio commentary they mentioned the twin towers and this is when I realised that today was actually September the 11th!


After admiring the view, we took a lift downstairs to join the Skyline interactive tour. Entering in I felt nervous at first as I wasn't sure what to expect. I was assuming it was like IMAX theatre in Sydney.

Everyone basically sat down in seats and tied a seatbelt to themselves and they play a video which was shot on a helicopter. So you tend to experience as if you are on the helicopter and flying in the sky passing through the city of NEW YORK. The best part was that the seats were moving from left to right to maximise the experience.

The tour was fun and fascinating for a while. It was time to call it quits for the day so it was back to the hotel for some rest.