New Zealand Tiana Waitomo Cave: exploring the mystery of the firefly world

Exploring the mysterious underground world stream gurgling, rowing boats quietly forward, in the dark cave ornamental countless fireflies fluorescent flashing on the head......

Deanna Waitomo Cave

Located in Deanna lake west hill under the underground cave maze, the habitat of countless fireflies.

The Sydney morning post Deanna described as "Waitomo Cave the world's most unusual limestone cave tourism one", is visiting the fjord region of the tourists must dos.

According to legend, A Na Waitomo Cave mysteriously disappeared for many years. Only the ancient Maori names Te Ana-au implies that it exists, it means "Whirlpool Rapids cave".

Until 1948, the local Explorer Lawson Blaus (Lawson Burrows) was once again found a cave. He told the ancient legend feel excited, spent three years searching for each cavity, finally found a trickle out from the rock in the lake west tiana. Brauss climbed into the rock, through the entrance, countless fireflies emit fluorescence in the cave of his eye.

We now know, these magical caves is just a huge cave below, it has been extended down to Fiordland National Park the following.

Exploring the mysterious underground world stream gurgling

To explore the mysteries of the firefly world

Deanna in the Waitomo Cave tour visitors take a special sightseeing cruise through the magnificent Manapuli lake, West to the great lakes.

After the West Bank in aboard, first in the cave home (Cavern House) to watch the photo exhibition, be courteous and accessible natural guide and lead you to the packet into the cave (n = up to 14 people).

Cave is beautiful be hardly worthy of belief. According to the geography standards, the cave is very young (12000 years), expanding in the underground river erosion, results in the formation of the cave maze meandering, dotted with numerous scour the formation of rocks, and the vortex and the underground waterfalls in a thundering rage.

In the cave deep place, there is no surging rapids, you take a boat into countless fireflies resting quiet and secret cave. I can't see a thing in the cave, they emit light appears very special.

Visiting time:2 hours and 15 minutes.

Photo: Real Journeys