Saturday 25th Feb Rotorua (22 degrees)

 This morning we left our beautiful accommodation that overlooked the local golf-course and headed back to the Waitomo Glow Worm caves. We had another tour booked, this time to visit a different cave and also included a boat ride through a cave full of glow worms. We walked down into the cave and observed more stalagmites and stalactites as well as some glow worms. We entered a beautiful chamber called the Cathedral. The acoustics in this chamber were amazing! From here we walked down to a small boat. It was completely dark and the only person that had any light was our guide. Photos were not permitted during this tour due to the lights disrupting the glow worms. It was the most peaceful, serene experience, silently gliding along in the boat and observing thousands of tiny glow worms on the ceiling of the cave. After this tour we hit the road again heading for Rotorua. It only took an hour and a half. We sorted out some bookings at the tourist information centre and then went walking along the shoreline of Lake Rotorua, around the beautiful Government gardens and finally visiting the mud pools at Kuirau Thermal Park. After our walking we checked into our accommodation which is located right on the lake. We did some laundry and then visited the Polynesian Spa. Here we spent time lounging around in various hot acidic and alkaline natural mineral spring pools at various temperatures ranging from 36 degrees to 41 degrees.  Of course we are now cured of all our arthritis and have no wrinkles. J

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