Woke up to a nice breakfast room. Think this is the only place where we had breakfast in hotel.
Very wholesome breakfast with 2 sunny side up!
First stop was the Tawhai Falls (Gollums Pool). This was the view from the carpark.
Falls as an easy 5 min walk.
After this, we left the Tongariro National Park.
We stopped by a town, Taumarunui, for a toilet break and walked around a little before continuing the journey.
Upon arriving at Waitomo, we initially planned to have lunch at Huhu but it was closed. Hence we settled for a light lunch stop opposite, The General Store Waitomo. We had a pie and brownie.
After that, we went for our Ruakuri Cave tour. Since we've been to the Glowworm tour in Te Anau the year before, we decided to go for one that allows photos to be taken.
The entrance to the cave.
Am glad we chose this tour as there's lots to see in terms of the cave formation, besides just the glowworm.
Getting to the glowworm.
Close up on the glowworms with lighting.
The tour was impressive, so was the story of how it was found and who owns the land lol.
The interesting formation, which we did not notice in the last glowworm tour.
End of the tour.
To be continued on the second part of Waitomo!
~ New Zealand Trip 2023 ~
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