A: Black water rafting, exploring subterranean rivers and caves on various flotation devices, has become an increasingly popular pastime in New Zealand. Waitomo, a Maori word meaning water hole or ...

New Zealand’s Black Water Rafting Company leads tours in the Raukuri cave, in the Waitomo district, which is best known for glowworm caves where Arachnocampa luminosa alight on limestone ...

Waitomo is a Maori word consisting of ‘wai’, meaning water, and ‘tomo’, meaning hole or entrance. It roughly translates as “stream which flows into the hole in the ground”. The area is riddled with ...

Did the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge miss out on one of New Zealand's great ... lure of the Waitomo caves is the black water, ... tour from the Legendary Black Water Rafting Co. (www.waitomo ...

Neil Porten and his teenage daughter, Orla, go black water rafting. Here are their accounts of the adventure. 'This year has been so wet it seemed pointless ...

My biggest challenge wasn’t the cold water, narrow walls, low ceiling or fast-moving water in New Zealand’s Ruakuri Cave. It was the tendency of my glasses to keep fogging up, making … ...

Gear up with a wet suit and head lamp to explore the depths of New Zealand's unique and fascinating glow worm caves on this thrilling adventure.