For our Christmas Holidays, we rented a Bach in a small town on the West Coast called Raglan. We had heard lots of good things about the place leading up to it, and for the most part, it lived up to the hype. We stayed there from December 22nd to the 26th, but had some other things planned during those few days. On December 23rd, we went Black Water Rafting in the Waitomo Caves, which is a 2 hour tube ride in an underground waterway. It's an acitivity that is exclusive to this part of the world. You go out in groups of 12 (including 2 tour guides), and navigate these massive caves. We got launched over waterfalls and there was stretches of the trip where the cave above us was lit up with glow worms,
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