This afternoon we got to go underground and check out some caves. We got to Waitomo with about 15 minutes to spare - just enough time to hit the bathrooms and gawk at some geegaws before meeting our guide, Savitri. We all loved Savitri. She was a young twentysomething Kiwi with a really charming demeanor. She had a habit of referring to the group as “sweethaats” and was very concerned about our welfare on the bumpy ride up through the hills on narrow unsealed roads that followed the ridge lines. “Ah ya quite heppy then, sweethaats?, she would call out, making sure none of us were carsick. None were. When someone mentioned how treacherous they thought these roads were, she replied, “Yeh, they don’t bother me, I grew up on roads like these”. After a 25-minute
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