Waitomo Day Tour

Includes:

✓ Kiwi House Visit ✓ Glowworm Caves Tour ✓ Lunch in Waitomo

Enjoy a self-guided walk visiting Otorohonga Kiwi House. Get up close and personal with the large collection of unique birds and reptiles. Walk through New Zealand's largest free-flight dome aviary, see the unique tuatara, a native New Zealand reptile, which pre-dated the dinosaurs and view active kiwi throughout the day (New Zealand’s national bird) including rare Great Spotted Kiwi, Little Spotted Kiwi and Brown Kiwi, which are on display in a night time setting in the kiwihouse.

Travelling south we arrive at one of New Zealand’s premier visitor destinations – the Waitomo Caves. Here a guide will take us underground to view the amazing limestone caves featuring stalagmites and , which have taken centuries to form. We continue to walk down to an underground stream to board a small boat to view the glow-worm grotto – an underground cavern featuring millions of glow-worms.

Driving through the beautiful Waitomo countryside, enjoy a short walk to Falls, a dramatic 35 metre high waterfall, referred to by some as “the most beautiful in New Zealand”. Backtrack to Mangapohue Natural Bridge. A boardwalk leads through a picturesque limestone gorge to the base of this natural bridge. The 17m high limestone arch is the only, albeit impressive, reminder of a once expansive ancient system. Travelling back to Waitomo, lunch is included at Huhu Café, overlooking Waitomo Village to the bushclad hills beyond.

For those brave enough there is the option to enjoy a Black Water Rafting adventure. The original Waitomo subterranean adventure will have you climbing, black water tubing, leaping and floating through the incomparable Ruakuri Cave. Over three hours you'll take leaps of faith over cascading waterfalls and float serenely down an underground river, while enjoying the glow worm show on the vaulted limestone galleries up above (Please note this option will cost an additional $80.00pp and you will miss the Waitomo Glowworm Tour and the trip to Marokopa Falls/Mangapohue Natural Bridge). More information about Black Water Rafting can be found here http://www.waitomo.com/black- water-rafting/Pages/black-labyrinth.aspx Departs Hamilton at 8.00am Returns to Hamilton at 4.00pm Cost per person: $125.00 Based on a minimum of 12 passengers.

231 Kahikatea Drive, P.O. Box 5088, Hamilton 3242, New Zealand Tel +64 7 847 8258 Fax: +64 7 847 2921 N.Z. Toll Free 0800-534-787 Aust. Toll Free 1800-639-132 [email protected] www.leisuretimetours.co.nz