Setting off on foot with your guide across lunar-like landscape you'll traverse the crater rim and have the opportunity to descend a scree slide right into the crater that yielded such devastation. It's a great adventure - refreshments are supplied. Today we travel by coach to Waitomo. It really isn't rafting at all. We gear up in wet suits, put on a lighted hard hat and climb in a black inner tube and float on underground rivers through some spectacular caves.
Some caves have the added attraction of glow worms lighting up the cave ceiling like the Milky Way.
Beyond the city of Hamilton, the road runs north through Ngaruawahia, home to the Maori Queen, and Huntly one of New Zealand's most important coalmining centres. Cooked breakfast included at your hotel. For more info call your favourite travel agent or fill out our Travel Info Form Click here to fill out a request for a group quotation.