Te Kuiti Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

With a map drawn to help us and a little help from Andrews's amazingly clear memory we made our way up to Andrews Aunt Lins where he had spent many a childhood Christmas. Lin and Husband Don welcomed us in with open arms and a full menu. Most impressive were the largest and juiciest beefsteak tomatoes picked fresh from the garden outside, they w...

We travelled from Rotorua to a place called Waitomo. Waitomo is famous for one thing and one thing alone, caves! We arrived in the mid afternoon and were pleased to find a good campsite. We set ourselves up on a grassy hill and basked in the glorious sunshine. As I said Waitomo is famous for its numerous caves. There are all manner of cave relat...

Monday, December 1st, Waitomo, New Zealand Spent the night in the creepy but cool big old hotel on the hill, got up and went down for breakfast at the hostel 1/2-way down the hill, then to our "Lost Worlds" tour. If you have Discovery HD Theater, this has been on over and over again. We drove to the site, got our gear on, walked to a lushly cove...

Sunday, November 30th, Rotorua to Waitomo, New Zealand Get up, have breakfast at a coffeehouse/cafe then drive 1h30m to Waitomo. This drive is absolutely gorgeous, and we finally get to the huge town of Waitomo - probably 50 people - and check in with Waitomo Adventures and hesitatingly sign up for two tours to the tune of about USD$225 or so. W...

Three hours south-west of Auckland is the pretty little village of Waitomo. This idyllic spot hides an underworld of caverns and tunnels, where people come from miles around to abseil, climb and swim in the freezing cave rivers. As we're in New Zealand, home of adventure sports, we thought we'd start as we mean to go on, and signed up for "The B...

******************************** Wednesday 15th October Went on walk through an old Gold mining area built on Karangahake gorge. After crossing a wobbly bridge we had to head through the old railway tunnel. It was dead straight and you could see a small circle of daylight in the distance. Inside it was very dark and damp. The ancient, yellow, sp...