SkyWalk at the Sky Tower

SkyWalk takes small groups out onto the ring that circles the Sky Tower's pergola, nearly two hundred metres above the street. Walkers are kitted out in a suit and harness, clipped to a rail overhead, and led around by a guide who sets the pace and talks through what they are looking at. There is no handrail, which is rather the point. The whole thing runs about an hour and a half from briefing to unclipping, with the walk itself taking around twenty minutes. Older children can take part alongside an adult, and it tends to suit the ones who want the story and the height more than the scare. Families often pair it with the tower's observation decks, reached on the same lift, which give a gentler version of the same view for anyone who would rather stay behind glass.