So my glow worm ‘adventure’ started at 8:30am. I had my tea and toast at the campsite, figured I’d be good to go. So this was not a normal tour by any means…& I had read that from reviews, kinda why I chose it as the other cave tours get pretty crowded.
So it’s me and 5 other 20-somethings, two girls from England, 1 backpacker from Amsterdam, and a couple from China. Cali was our guide. So this adventure begins by changing out of our clothes and into their supplied duds. (Can’t wait till google photos catches up!!). Geared up, we hike out their back door.
This property has been in the same family for a few generations, they only started doing private tours last year. We get down to the cave entrance and Cali starts walking us in a nice flowing creek.
From there on, there was very little walking and all climbing, twisting, contorting thru and over boulders and the like. We all had a blast! One of the English girls was getting a little claustrophobic but she persevered. So it’s a big ol cave with all the usual cool things plus one more – glow worms!!!
No pictures of them – we all tried but Cali stated it would not take and she was right! So we get in two different cave areas, turn out all of our headlamps & pitch black darkness except for these little worms glowing all over the ceiling!! It was too cool. And we saw an eel – came right up to us!
So about noontime when we emerged back above, I was dying of thirst and hunger, then headed to Rotorua.
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