Saturday, May 17, 2008

Day 4--Waitomo Caves(Ruakuri)

Day 4 is the last day of our trip..the weather wasn't that good..it was raining incessantly for the past few days in Waitomo..We act booked a tour under spellbound. But due to the increasing level of water in the cave, n it was too dangerous to explore the cave..the tour is CANCELLED!!
Damn..imagine how frustrated we were....
Nonetheless...we had a back-up plan...go to i-site..to see if any cave was still operating...
Fortunately..this engineered-cave--Ruakuri was still open..So, we quickly booked it and wen on our tour...
As i said engineered cave--it meant that..the cave was purposely exploited..there are nice footpath inside the cave...lighting system, telephone!!!etc...
BUT...all the structure inside the cave were cautiously well-preserved..
So, it wasn't too bad though..n this is the only cave that was still open which has glow worm inside there..so..that's part of the reason we chose this cave.

stalagnate



Variety shape



A lot more



Holes!!!



can see the horizontal line??..it was due to the water flow inside the cave in the past


M'sia's Keris inside NZ cave


Potatoes on the wall


There is tiny little drop of water at the end!!!

n there we go...GLOW WORM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
due to lousy camera..the best i can catch is this...
if u really wan to capture it..muz use a special camera..as it is totally dark inside the cave..n the light the glow worm emit..was too weak...

strings hanging on the wall


Closed up


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

haha..It's really fun in the cave..But the cave u went is much more interesting than mine(Gua Telinga of Taman Negara)haha..bt still i enjoy the trip.like adventure!!