I went to Waitomo on Thursday for the Black Water Rafting - quite a popular activity and also rather unique. Our bus chose to do the “Black Abyss” trp with The Legendary Black Water Rafting Company. This involves about 3 hours underground in the limestone caves around Waitomo.
The main tourist draw of these caves is the huge number of glow worms present in the caves - they cover the ceiling in places. Most of the trips simply involve wandering about the caves, looking at the caves and glow worms. The trip we did is decribed as “Adventure Caving” and is a little bit different…
The trip kicks off with the usual struggle into a wetsuit, then its off to do some abseil training. You enter the caves via a 35m abseil through a quite tight part of the cave - which I flew down ;-). After that, theres a zip line into the darkness, a while spent floting in the dark on innertubes watching the glow worms, jumping off stuff, squezes and other cave type stuff and finally climbing out via 2 waterfalls.
Well worth doing if you get the chance, and make sure you cough up for he more expensive trip as the shorter one misses out so much…..Â
