Waitomo Wanderer

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Glow worms
Black Water Rafting

I don't know how many e-mails a bus service gets, raving about the service its customers receive, but I wanted to anyway. I was travelling from Raglan to Waitomo and then Waitomo to Rotorua several days later - and had the same driver for both.

He was probably one of the coolest people I have ever met - he had a great sense of humour, making the bus ride extremely fun, and when we got to Rotorua, he went out of his way to make sure we got to a hostel.

Jackie Webber, Canada

Rotorua to Waitomo to Rotorua

Experience the wonder of Waitomo with this one day trip departing from Rotorua and connections from Taupo. Pick ups start at 7:15am.

Depart from Rotorua with the ‘Waitomo Wanderer’ and head to Waitomo to experience the caves. “Wai” means water, “tomo” means cave, so you can guess what you are getting into. The caves are made of limestone (basically 40 million year old dead fish).

The Waitomo Day Trip has enough time for you to do the Black Labyrinth Tour run by The Legendary Black Water Rafting Company, if you wish, which is a three hour caving adventure, seeing glow-worms in caves, stalactites, fossil oysters and tube your way through the underground caves! Head back to Rotorua OR Taupo the same day, or stay longer in Waitomo to check out more of the caves or black water rafting!