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The Waitomo Caves are located in the Waikato region on the North island of New Zealand.
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There are a number of stalactite caves in the southern Waikato region. She is particularly well known Waitomo firefly cave, they are not far away Aranui cave and the Rukuri cave, and just a few kilometers away in the Ruakuri Caves & Bush Scenic Reserve is the cave Gardner's good.
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getting there
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In the street
The Waitomo Caves are on State Highway
, this branches between Otorohanga and Te Kuiti at a roundabout from State Highway
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By bus
Fees / permits
Entry costs NZ $ 50.00 for adults, NZ $ 23.00 for children aged 4 to 14 years old, and free entry for children under 4 years of age. The family card costs NZ $ 124. (As of September 2017)
Combination tickets are available for visiting the Aranui Cave or the Ruakuri Cave.
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Dynamic cardsTourist Attractions
The caves are on a site owned by the Maori, they also organize the tours.
- Waitomo Glowworm Cave. The cave system of the world-famous glow worm cave is very well developed and also a bit overcrowded. You enter the cave on a guided tour that takes about an hour. The access is not very spectacular at first, it begins on the top level of the stalactite cave. Then it goes on a well-developed staircase through the Tomo a few meters down. Here is the so-called. Banquet Chamber, it shows traces of soot on the ceiling from the fires of previous speleologists. Down on the third level is the 18 m high cathedral, a wide cave with good acoustics. Up to this point it is a normal stalactite cave. From here you can get to the actual spectacular part of the cave, which from Waitomo River is traversed. This is where the Fireflywhose larvae hang by the hundreds on the ceiling and give off a bluish light. Photography is prohibited in the entire cave system. The tour is now continued in the boat, the guide pulls it silently on a rope tied to the ceiling in the direction of the exit.
- Fireflies also live in the other two caves nearby. The Ruakuri cave can be walked over a length of 1.6 km, the shorter one Aranui cave is famous for its beautiful stalactite formations.
activities
- Blackwater rafting. You can drift through an underground river on the tube of a truck tire. Partly it goes downhill on cascades.
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Practical advice
- 1 i-SITE Visitor Information Center, 21 Waitomo Village Road, Waitomo Caves, Waitomo 3943. Tel.: 64 (0)7 878 7640, Fax: 64 (0)7 878 6184, Email: [email protected]. Open: Daily from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., in the summer months sometimes until 6:00 p.m.
