Waitomo Caves, New Zealand Travel Blogs

Bald Rabbits!
Nov 13, 2004 (5 photos)

... at all - it was Rabbits. RABBITS! I couldn't believe it. Apparently they are shorn daily here at Waitomo - the only place in New Zealand that does, according to the sign outside. The rabbits in particular are the 'German Angora' variety that happen to ...

Waitomo
Dec 6, 2008 (2 photos)

Waitomo is famous for it's glow worm caves. There are lots of limestone caves in the area and they are full of glow worms. You can choose to black water raft through the caves (abseil into the cave and sit in a rubber tube and take it all in ...

Caving, Toobing and doing the Haka!
Oct 16, 2008 (56 photos)

Today we left our lodge at about 8am and headed to Waitomo. Here we decided to do the Tumu Tumu Toobing. This involved going down into a dark cave and crawling, swimming and tubing through it. Firstly we had to walk to the hole, that you drop down ...

Wet'n Wild in Waitomo
Jul 20, 2008 (30 photos)

... caves tour for the evening (35$ each). Beforehand we took a muddy reserve wander to the viewpoint overlooking desolate Waitomo & the museum of caves. Put simply the limestone bedrock in Waitomo has been dissolved by acid rain & thus caved in. We saw lots ...

Glowworms
Dec 28, 2003

I'm trudging up a remote hillside in a full wetsuit, white rubber boots and a hardhat with headlight. Some acquaintances might say this is another of my occasional fashion faux pas, but today I'm in good company. Emma, Bridget and a dozen strangers are ...

Glowworms and Kiwis
Jan 16, 2006 (4 photos)

After the quiet relaxing time in Taupo, we decided to do something adventurous. So it was off to Waitomo caves to do a bit of "Blackwater rafting" - which is basically going down an underground river on an inflatable inner tube! Great fun. After getting ...

Black Water Rafting
Nov 30, 2007

... as I turned my light back on I realised I was hiding next to a huge Water Spider! We all carried on through the caves, sometimes crawling through little holes until we arrived at the water. Our guide made us do stupid things like put mud on our faces ...

Waitomo Caves
Mar 8, 2008 (12 photos)

Waitomo

Glowworms, stalactites and stalagmites
Sep 13, 2008 (4 photos)

... hiervan dus. (wie de film earth gezien heeft weet misschien hoe het er juist uitziet) Dejamos Karibu Creek y nos dirijimos hacia Waitomo Caves,unas cuevas de piedra caliza al estilo de las de altamira o las cuevas del drac, pero con la particularidad de ...

Waitomo Caving
Oct 13, 2007 (5 photos)

... and we started driving 4 hours to Auckland, in the rain of course, because we fly out tomorrow morning around 10 AM. So now New Zealand is finished.  It was amazing here.  We just wish we could of had more time here to see and do stuff.  ...

Black Water Rafting
Feb 12, 2008

... the boots of the person beind you and flooted down the underground river with our lights off.  The only visible thing in the caves at that point were the glow worms, hundred of them lining the roof of the cave.  It was just like star gazing.& ...

Glow worms and Gum Boots
Apr 6, 2007

"Wai" in Maori means water and "Toma" means cave/hole in the ground so that spells out what Waitomo is famous for. The underground limestone caverns here were first discovered in 1887 and tourists have visited ever since. I signed up for the ...

The bloodchilling thrills of black water ...
Nov 9, 2000

... ". Our training was held along the shores of a lazy brown stream that flows out of the hills and down through the Waitomo caves, taking a detour somewhere in between to acquire a distinctive Antarctic chill. Our brief time on the riverbank was spent ...

Waitomo
Jul 20, 2007

Waitomo caves tomorrow.

Day 3 - Waitomo - It's Glowing
Apr 7, 2009 (3 photos)

... away.  A really tasty and colorful meal! This morning we picked up our camper van and headed south about 2 1/2 hours to Waitomo.  It was a bit of a challenge to get used to the steering wheel on the right and the stick shift on the left ...

Black H2O Rafting
Oct 17, 2007 (10 photos)

Vi var i Waitomo en enkelt dag. Der oesede ned, men det gjorde ingenting; for vi gik under jorden for at se the 'caves'. Absolut et must paa nordoeen, at se disse caves. Vi 'absailed' 35 meter gennem en skakt og stod vi ellers dernede i en flot hule. ...

Caving Adventure
May 21, 2009

... and headed to the tiny village of Waitomo. We were really excited as we  had booked a caving adventure with Waitomo Adventures called Tumu Tumu Toobing. At the adventure centre we met up with our guide Drew(at least I think that was his ...

100m Abseil
Oct 24, 2008 (6 photos)

Travelled up from Taupo to Waitomo having booked ourselves on "The Lost World Tour". Arrived in time for a spot of lunch and anxiety about what we had let ourselves in for.... ... here's what , we would be transported by minibus to a remote location, don ...

Superbowl Sunday Funday. On a Monday!
Feb 4, 2008

... , i can't go back! seriously though, we woke our selves out of another night's beauty rest in the Shwagon and rolled into the Waitomo caves for some tubing (wai - water, tomo - tube). I'd heard all about it from Heather P, and seen her pictures of her in ...

Tussenstop bij de Waitomo grotten
Jan 5, 2008 (1 photos)

vandaag rijden we richting Auckland maar we stoppen misschien nog wel even bij de Waitomo grotten, wie weet!

Cool Glow wormes in the Waitomo Caves
Oct 31, 2009 (5 photos)

On our way to Rotorua, we stopped at the Waitomo caves, where we took a tour of the underground caves.  It was pretty amazing to see the Glow worms, well actually, they are not worms but larvae of a large mosquito-like fly. In order to survive ...

Indoor skies of Waitomo
Jan 9, 2009 (7 photos)

... to be a crumble.  I don't think anybody actually got tea. We got back in the van to finish the trip to Waitomo.  I noticed that the scenery had changed into rolling hills and farmland.  There were cattle, sheep, and horses everywhere.  The views were ...

Höhlen
Nov 2, 2009 (4 photos)

Waitomo Die Gegend sieht wie das Hobbitland aus Herr der Ringe aus. Hügel satten Grüns. Also am Abend angekommen, nicht viel los weil es ist auß ...

Waitomo black water rafting
Mar 4, 2009

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Waitomo Caves
Feb 8, 2009 (25 photos)

... molt interessants. Viatjarem 12kms cap al sud per tenir una vista panoràmica de diversos llacs localitzats al voltant de la ciutat. I després cap a Waitomo. Al arribar, concertem un tour per demà per visitar una de les més de 400 coves que hi ha a Waitomo i ...

Caving
May 26, 2008 (7 photos)

We got the bus up to the Waitomo Caves yesterday ready to do the cave tour today. It was a tour through the Ruakuri cave and was really good. Ruakuri means "two dogs". The cave has been named this after the two dogs who tried to kill a tribesman for food ...

Black Water Rafting
Nov 19, 2006 (4 photos)

... to the world's coldest backpacker dorm, sited in a dilapidated old train carriage in the middle of nowhere), we stopped at the Waitomo Caves to try our hand at Black Water Rafting. For those of you unfamiliar with this, it involves donning the most ...

The Hobbit Motel
Jan 9, 2007 (8 photos)

... to mark the spot where he watched B-movies), did the riverside walk, toured the museum (free!), and shopped in Kathmandu. Outside Waitomo Caves is Billy Black's Farm Show, and it contains some odd motel units. www.woodlynpark.co.nz They've a train, a ...

Rotorua -> Waitomo Caves -> Auckland
Nov 21, 2006 (14 photos)

... close-up view and enjoy an experience we will never forget. The Waitomo glowworm, Arachnocampa luminosa, is unique to New Zealand. Thousands of these tiny creatures radiate their unmistakable luminescent light as our expert ...

Glow Worms and Bed Bugs!
Jan 3, 2006 (2 photos)

Got up really early and for some reason was very itchy but went straight to Rock, Raft and Rope in Waitomo for their 5 hour adventure. I was standing in the office putting on a wetsuit when the boss asked me to turn around. The look on his face made me ...