Activities in The King Country
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Green Glow Eco-Adventures
Green Glow Eco-Adventures runs customised, small-group Waitomo tours, putting caving, rock-climbing, abseiling, photographic or glowworm spin on your day (or all of the above!). It’s based in Te Kuiti, 20 minutes from Waitomo.
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Waitomo Adventures
Waitomo Adventures offers five different cave adventures, with discounts for various combos and for advance bookings. The Lost World (four-/seven-hour trip $270/395) trip starts with a 100m abseil down into the cave, then – by a combination of walking, climbing, spider-walking, inching along narrow rock ledges, wading and swimming through a river – you take a three-hour journey through a 30m-high cave to get back out, passing glowworms, amazing rock formations, waterfalls and more. The price includes lunch (underground) and dinner. The shorter version skips the wet stuff and the meals.
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Legendary Black Water Rafting Company
Legendary Black Water Rafting Company claims to have invented black-water rafting! Its Black Labyrinth tour (three hours, $110, minimum age 12) involves floating in a wetsuit on an inner tube down a river that flows through Ruakuri Cave. The highlight is leaping off a small waterfall and then floating through a long, glowworm-covered passage. The trip ends with showers, soup and bagels in the cafe. The Black Abyss tour (five hours, $215, minimum age 16) is more adventurous and includes a 30m abseil into Ruakuri Cave and more glowworms, tubing and cave climbing.
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Spellbound
Spellbound is a good option if you don’t want to get wet and want to avoid the big groups in the main caves. This three-hour tour and raft-ride departs from the pyramid-like booking office in the middle of town (usually 10am, 11am, 2pm and 3pm, varying seasonally) and goes through parts of the glowworm-filled Mangawhitiakau cave system, 12km south of Waitomo.
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Black Water Rafting Waitomo Caves Tour
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If you seek an adventure tour that plays with your senses and provides an unforgettable thrill then this tour is for you. Choose between the Black Abyss or the …Not LP reviewed
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Caveworld
Caveworld runs the Black Magic (2½ hours, $124) black-water rafting trip through glowworm-filled Te Anaroa. You’ve also got the choice of a day or (glowworm-illuminated) night abseil down a 45m crevice called The Canyon (two hours, night/day $144/175). Various combo discounts apply.
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Waitomo Wanderer
Waitomo Wanderer operates a daily return services from Rotorua or Taupo, with optional caving and tubing add-ons (packages $188 to $288). Shuttle-only services are $45 each way.
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Taumarunui Jet Tours
Taumarunui Jet Tours runs high-octane jet-boat trips on the Whanganui River.
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