Waitomo Travel Blogs

Finally, I'd been looking forward to this trip for quite a few weeks and today some dear friends and I went to the popular and extremely spectacular Waitomo Caves. This trip is a highly recommended must for kiwi traveller!!! So I really couldn't miss it, could I? And our programme should become mor…

i've put new zealand in second place after lucern, switzerland on my list of places to live after ks. new zealand was unbelievably GORGEOUS! i was truly impressed by the ethnic diversity, extraordinary flora and fauna, extensive marine resources, dramatic and varied landscape and the people were very friendly as well. i will definitely go back and check out other areas i didn't get to visit.

what i was doing in waitomo:sleeping at juno hall in waitomo (great hostel).hanging out with ulrik, the wonderful CSer i met up with in rotorua.also hanging out with katie, a totally amazing welsh chick.wandering around the waitomo walkway, with the famous 5....the famous 5 is actually the fantasti…

Rotorua is a nice place to stay for 2-3 days but I only stayed there for one night. The morning we left Rotorua, we went to the Te Puia site. This is a place where you can get to know more about Maori culture and watch the geysers. It's also the place where I've seen the Kiwi bird for the first tim…

Hoy me levante recansando... y posiblemente sea porque la alarma de incendio se encargo anoche de cada 2 minutos hacer PIP bien fuerte... pero no se. asi que con un dia hermoso, decidi qeu me quedo hoy por estos lados, en especial porque no estoy para manejar mucho. La cueva que quise ir a ver, no…

The joys of sleep! After a 21 hour flight with a 10 hour complete waste of time at Hong Kong airport we arrive at Auckland int. Flaky, undernourished and sleepdeprived. It's about 9 in the morning. The sun is out and the bird's are singing as the New Zealand border patrol wastes no time on finding …

Mon 2   We drove to Rotorua today.  On the way we stopped at the Waitomo caves.  We got to go for a cave tour and see glowworms.  On the way to our next destination, we stopped to pet some angora rabbits and buy some warm weather gear to brave the weather made from a…

My father once told me that traveling alone will either kill you or sharpen your wits... how is it that i have to test his theory every time i travel?

We all moved on to Waitomo where there is not a lot there but some big caves. We stayed in some nice chalets and then had a game of football UK vs Rest of the world which was good fun. Had a big group BBQ for dinner and then had a few drinks in a tiny local bar where two sisters from Hull had a mas…

On our last day in Waitomo we trekked the 12km Waitomo Walkway, described by our Rough Guide To New Zealand as "one of the best short walks in the country." Not too challenging a walk, it took us up to a viewpoint of Waitomo then along Waitomo Stream. From the end of the walkway, we followed the Ra…

Australia what a great country! The weather is nice. I'm going to be in Australia for the comming 3 months. Real life down under ...

One month in New Zealand - two weeks on each island. Fantastic nature!!! Kayaking, paragliding, bungy jumping, Christmas... and much, much more. This is absolutely one of the most beautiful places I've ever been! I have to go back.. and back.. and back, and back..

After this trip I'm quite happy I'm rather slender, if I had been 5 cm more to the sides I would not have fit through some of those holes. Makes me wonder what they do if a big bloke (or bloke'inne) books on to the tour. As we decended into the depths it was yet dry and an ordinary caving adventure…

Waitomo is a very small town with a crazy amount of caves and rivers to explore, however on this ocasion I choose to save my money and just do nothing. There was something that the Kiwi bus people were saying was really good called black water rafting. Bascially it is a mixture of zip lines, caving…

Currently a work in progress.... so many things that happend in 6 weeks thats its to much to write it all down at once. pictures are added with correct locations.. stories are coming soon.