Waitomo

On our way, the bus stops, we all jump out and are led through some old gold mines, criss-crossing it's way over a river on some rather wobbly bridges. We see a few glow worms on the roofs of the tunnels before a big group photo with the bus and on our way, Waitomo is a small village with only a few houses a pub and a restaurant. We had nothing planned but there is quite a lot available such as black water rafting through the caves which a few people did. We walked up a track to a viewpoint, on the return to the village we met Johanson, our German room mate from Wake up Hostel in Sydney. The hostel there is good, all the standard facilities done well and rooms of only a few rooms, however they do have the standard global gossip pay per minute internet that all the hostels seem rather fond of.

In the morning the coach left the village of Waitomo but stopped for us all to go on a walk just outside the village, here we saw a few more caves, streams and it all lies in the woods. Adam, Miles (the two Americans) and I ended up shuffling along a ledge above a stream to find ouselves at the entrance to a large cave however we could go no further as the we had to catch up with the group which involved a lot of running, arriving at the coach just as we head it's engine start up readying to go.