Melting

When I started to research my trip to New Zealand, I managed to watch a television show on the Travel channel in the States called A Royal Tour of New Zealand. The Prime Minister Helen Clark took an American journalist around on a helicopter and they did all these cool and exciting things all over the country. There was one thing they did that I specifically remember, called The Lost World. They abseiled, or rappeled down into this canyon deep into the ground, and walked through the underground caves. I remember thinking that I wanted to do that while I was in New Zealand, and was happily surprised when my guidebook fully recommended a full day activity in the town of Waitomo called The Lost World. I assumed that was the same activity as on the show, and after calling from Auckland this past weekend, booked myself on a 7 hour tour for Tuesday, January 24th. The tour included a 100 meter abseil into a canyon and plenty of caving activities.

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