Glowworm Caves

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Drove down to Waitomo today, the main attraction being the glow worm caves. As far as we have read there is not that much more to do here than visit the caves so we decided just one night here would be fine.

Another scortching day and as soon as we arrived we dumped our stuff and headed for the caves which were a five minute walk from our hostel. The glow worm cave tour was $28 each, we thought it was a bit pricey but we were only here to do that so in we went.

Our tour guide was a funny guy, had a very posh accent and we couldn't work out if he was a New Zealander or a Brit. The caves were very interesting and the guide kept pointing to fallen stalegtights and reassuring us that they don't fall often.

The caves were amazing and so was the boat trip through the main area of glow worm cave. Andrew was not entirely convinced they were real glow worms but seemed to enjoy it all the same.

After the tour, guess what, we headed to the local pub. We only had a couple out in the sun. They sold my favourite, rasberry Archers so I was pleased. We ate some more noodles for tea and sat outside till bedtime. Think we may get tired of noodles soon but they are so cheap, you can get a pack per person for 70 cents, they are just like super noodles.

It's a lovely hostel, big wooden lodge up in the trees and very clean, definately the best accomodation we have had yet and not very expensive either. Wish we could stay in this relaxed little place another night, but we still have a lot to see and do in New Zealand so onwards we head to Rotorua tomorrow.

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Photos

Waitomo Caves
Where the Glowworms live

Stalagmites
that form the caves

Inside the cave
at Waitomo

Kiwipaka
Where we stayed in Waitomo

View from our hostel
at the Kiwipaka, Waitomo

Andrew in the forest
outside Waitomo