Hello all, So just trying to catch up our entries here - we got to Waitomo on Jan 27 in the afternoon, left the next day. It was a tiny town, and we pretty much only saw the hostel and the pub where we ate supper. Right after we got there we got into our wetsuits (which looked pretty awesome), got our abseiling equipment and of course helmets with headlamps. After an abseiling lesson we took turns one by one dropping ourselves down a 35 meter hole into the caves. Once everyone was down we took turns going across another hole on a zip-line, which was also pretty fun, especially in the pitch dark. Then we got a little break to warm up with coffee and biscuits, and then jumped into the freezing cold water onto
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