Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Ruakuri and Waitomo Caves





This morning after breakfast we drove 4 km to the famous Waitomo glow worm caves. We didn't know they even existed but there are people here from all over the world. Yesterday at dinner we met three young Swedish guys from Örebro!

The caves are absolutely amazing. With our guide Hop we went on a 2 km long walk under ground and saw all these lime stone formations and all over little lights that were light worms. They are actually maggots but that didn't sound good in a advertising kind of way so they call them worms instead.  We also went on a little boat ride, everyone was  completely silent and all the light we could see was the light worms. Very cool!

Bye for now from an internet cafe in Waitomo (population 50, two (!) rugby teams)

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