Waitomo Caves North Island

What better way to explore the Waitomo caves than by tube, using Waitomo GPS (Glowworm positioning system)?

Before you are in a position to use this ancient form of navigation, of course you must abseil down 12 stories into a hole in the floor of the bushland, wriggling your body to get through the tight spots to get into the Ruakuri cave …

We boarded the boat and ditched the campervan under deck. We prepared for the 4 hour journey to the North Island over the pacific ocean. The boat was packed with about 80% rugby fans, with the North Island being the epicenter of the world cup really. About an hour in everyone was bouncing up off their seats and staring and pointing out the window. …

On Monday the 19^th of March I bade farewell to Wellington, quite possibly my favourite city in the world, and headed for Waitomo and my final night in a hostel. I wasn't that impressed with Juno Hall, a YHA and BBH member so my hopes were high, but the girl at the reception was as bored and unhelpful as possible (only advice offered was …

Nu iets meer dan een week in Nieuw-Zeeland en op weg naar het vliegveld. Niet om het land eerder te verlaten, maar om onze Campervan op te halen! De afgelopen week zijn Joyce en ik heerlijk verwend door mijn oom en tante, neef en nicht en hun partners.
Het leuke van het bezoeken van 'natives' is dat je een kijkje kan nemen in het leven van de …

We left Rotorua in the morning, heading to Te Kuiti. The GPS took us on a 23 km detour away from where we wanted to go, but a quick stop for directions and we got to our hotel. After checking in, we went to visit the Waitomo Glow Worm Caves. Although glow worm caves exist in several places around New Zealand, this is the big one to visit. …

I left early this morning onboard a Great Sights Motorcoach for a bus ride south from Auckland to the city of Rotorua stopping at the Waitomo Glowworm Caves. Along the way I was treated to landscapes of rolling grass covered hills filled with lots dairy cows and sheep. All the colors seemed so vibrant with the grass and trees an intense shade of …

16th From Allans in Auckland we drove down to Waitomo Caves and organized Caving for the naext day.
We camped that night just up from the caves in the YHA ground, Nug cooked Moules (Mussels)(To My food loving Parker Family! Amazing!) in White wine, lemon and Garlic for tea, was amazing! French stick too for the juice. We did some needed …

While sitting outside a bus station on a freezing morning in Hamilton, I came up with the plan that Burger King (I spied one on my way in to the town) would probably be open, so we quickly treked over to where It was and spent the next our slowly drinking a cup of tea.

When we finally decided that things would be openeing around 7am, we …

Hey allemaal,

Nou het is gelukt, ik zit weer in de bus!! Mijn hele reis terug naar Auckland is nu weer bevestigd. Hopelijk blijft het nu ook zo...
Donderdag op weg naar Waitomo een klein plaatsje aan de west kust van Nieuw Zeeland. Daar een spannende dag voor de boeg we gaan 100 meter abseilen en dan terug door een grot, de Lost World …

Waitomo er pķnupķnulķtill bęr en starfsemin ķ honum snżst ašalega um risa hella sem žar er aš finna. Žaš sem gerir hellana en įhugaveršri er sś stašreynd aš ķ žeim finnast milljónir glóandi orma/lirfra og žvķ hellarnir kallašir Glow-worms caves. Bošiš er upp į alls konar mismuandi skošunarferšir um žį allt frį žvķ aš fara ķ 1 klst skošunarferš upp …

... the third time in two weeks we passed through the uninspiring outskirts of Hamilton and after an hour we'd arrived at a very wet Waitomo Caves for our second attempt at seeing them. To begin with we booked into the local van park which was now ...

... knows. We then popped into a honey store to try lots of free samples (well it beats paying for it) before heading off to waitomo caves. We arrived in the afternoon and found out that we could get onto a trip there and then so we paid for the Black ...

... ;d booked it so far in advanced we’d forgotten what it entailed! We showed up on time (you gotta be on time in New Zealand, no joke) and were ushered over to where our fellow cave explorers were. There was an older English couple, a pair of ...

... spot and then the experience being trampled on by 40 elementary school kids! Haha, very romantic!  Then headed to a campsite in Waitomo and booked a caving tour for the next day and just chilled out for the rest of the afternoon. By this time in ...

... here during her stay in NZ. Here the local caves are made out of limestone and hidden beneath the countryside. In these caves are the famous glowworms, stalactites, stalagmites, cave coral, fossilised oysters and whale bones; all of which you can’t ...

... on price rather than experience. Graeme West, sales and marketing manager for Discover Waitomo, a division of Tourism Holdings, says Waitomo Caves has been caught in a price war between Chinese group tour operators. "Somebody dropped it out in ...

... we had lunch at the Mustard Seed cafe. After our second night away from our base in Auckland is was time to head home north via the Waitomo Caves, famous for their glow-worms, on the off-chance we might make the last tour, but at 5pm we were too late ...

I wake up with a lot of energy and decide to hike Auckland's Mt. Eden before driving south to the Waitomo caves.  Apparently, I hiked too fast as I arrived 2 hours early for my black water rafting excursion.  I go on a brief hike to the Ruekuri ...

... wandering around three different caves as a part of a tour, nicely wrapped in clothing with the luxury of staying dry. The Waitomo caves are somewhat world famous with our very own Queenie having visited (pre-coronation I would think) in 1953. They are ...

... in his own time to make us poor backpackers a decent meal. Lou was pleased that a veggie lasagne was served up! The Waitomo caves were next on the agenda. This is an amazing area of countryside that is inundated with a huge system of ...