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Abseil 35 metres into the dark. That's just the entrance.
Waitomo's biggest adventure: five hours underground with a 35-metre abseil, a flying fox, blackwater tubing, waterfall climbs and jumps, with glowworms overhead. Ages 16+, abseil training included.
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The trip starts with you leaning backwards over a 35-metre hole in the ground, rope in hand. If that sentence made your palms sweat, good, Black Abyss is Waitomo's flagship adventure, built for natural-born adrenaline junkies.
After abseil training, you drop into the cave system and it keeps escalating: a flying fox, blackwater tubing on the underground river, jumps into dark water, climbing, waterfalls, and glowworms scattered overhead the whole way through, like the cave is showing off.
It's five hours underground, ages 16 and up. Come with mates or come solo; either way you'll surface with a story that beats whatever everyone else did in Waitomo that day. Want the sampler first? Black Labyrinth is the three-hour warm-up.
35-metre abseil into the cave
Underground flying fox
Blackwater tubing the cave river
Waterfall jumps and climbs
Glowworms all the way through
Ages 16+, training included
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Review excerpts below are from Tripadvisor.
"Floating through underground rivers on inner tubes, climbing through ancient cave formations, and drifting silently beneath thousands of glowworms felt like something out of a movie. The moment when you turn off your headlamp and just stare at the ceiling of glowing blue lights is pure magic."
mjbrewitt
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"One of the most unique experience of our New Zealand Trip. Floating through the glowworm caves, climbing through underground passages, and jumping into the water made it both exciting and memorable."
Grace L
Tripadvisor review
"This was an all-round premium experience. My 12 year old son and I both loved it. It had a perfect balance of challenge (tight space caving squeezes) and breathtaking beauty (pitch black glowworm floating)."
JoteePark
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New Zealand
9 days · 8 nights
4.9 (575 · Trustpilot)
Auckland to Wellington
6 meals included
$1999 AUD
≈ $222/day
New Zealand
9 days · 8 nights
4.9 (575 · Trustpilot)
Christchurch to Queenstown
7 meals included
$1999 AUD
≈ $222/day
New Zealand
17 days · 16 nights
4.9 (575 · Trustpilot)
Auckland to Queenstown
13 meals included
$4399 AUD
≈ $259/day
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