Waitomo, Nz

Waitomo is a very small town where there is only one pub, one shop, a backpackers place and a few houses. But this is where we did Black Water Rafting as it is the only place in New Zealand where you can do it.

The first challenge we had was getting into our wet suits, once we had accomplished that we headed into the caves. You go though the caves on black rubber rings, reaching a depth of 65m, where it is absolutely freezing and the water is like ice. But it was amazing, some of the gaps we had to get through were pretty small, at one point we had to lay flat on our ring and push our way through using our hands, as the rock was so low it came right up to our faces. There were also a couple of small waterfalls which we had to jump off backwards - scary! Some parts were relaxing though such as when we all had to turn our lights off and float along looking up at the glow worms at the top of the cave. By the end of it our fingers were blue, our toes were numb but it was definately worth it!