Going north (in search of warm), we visited the world know Waitomo Caves. Limestone formations which are amazing nature spectacles. There are three cave systems but we saw only the glowworm cave and the long one. You walk for about 1:45 inside the earth, seing some glowworms and hearing a subterranean river which flows inside the cave. It even has a small waterfall that is very load when being inside. Some meters you have to walk them in completely pitch dark black. You see absolutely nothing and it is not allowed to lit anything because it disturbs the glowworms. Pictures were done all with the camera, so none this time. The glowworm cave har probably thousands of them, looking up was like seeing stars in a clear night. Very nice and romantic,since you see them while on a boat and in the most absolute silence. Something similar to "las cuevas del drac" en Mallorca o "Les coves de Sant Joan" de Vall d'uxo.
In the night that we spend in Waitomo we heard our first Kiwi bird, pretty load! We even took our lamos and went for a walk in the dark forest, withouht luck. Seems that to see a Kiwi in the wild is pretty dificult!
Next day, with a lot of rain, we drove again north towards Auckland, but we deviated a bit east and had a wonderful look at the hobbiton movie set of yhe Lord of the Rings. Really cool what we saw there, but they made us sign some papers that we could not say anything to anyone and we were also of course not allowed to post pics on the net. So wait for us to come...
Because the land were the hobbits 'lived' was a sheep farm, in the price if the ticket there was included a sheep shed show. Also not bad to see how, just a man, shed the whool of the whole sheep in less than 2 minutes... Curiosity: the world record hold of sheep shedding in one day is 800 !!
Count them all and for sure you get asleep!
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