After a fantastic weekend catching up with The Joneses (Sean, Sharon & their kids) in Auckland, we headed out on our own in the motorhome. We drove south to Waitomo, with the aim of visiting its famous glowworm caves. (We’d seen them featured in the first series of the BBC’s excellent Planet Earth.)
It took a touch over 2.5 hours to get there, so we stopped for lunch at a petrol station on the way (ah, life on the open road). On arriving at the caves, we found a few different options for tours. As it was already 3pm, we had thought we’d only have time for the glowworm cave tour but were told that if we wanted to we could tour the Aranui Cave at 3:30pm and then get on the last glowworm cave tour at 5pm.
We ended up being really happy we were took the option to see the Aranui Cave, too: it’s apparently the least popular of the 3 cave systems you can visit in Waitomo, but it’s in many ways the most stunning. Here are some photos:
