Adrenaline route

Today we woke up early-ish to go to the Waitomo caves which are the caves with glow worms lining a big part of the ceiling. I decided to do a black water tubing option which means in parts of the cave we are swimming and in tubes as we look up at the magnificent glow worms. Unfortunately there were no cameras allowed inside the caves but they said that they would send us a link in order to get the pictures that they took. I am still waiting to receive it. Our guide seemed to know a lot of caves and different things found in them.

He would often lead us through a path and after we would squeeze our way through he would say, yup that was the tight path, we could have also taken the easy path here.... Great thanks man. As we were getting on the tubes he gave us an adrenaline option where we climb up the side of the cave and jump ass first into the tube. But watch out because there is a rock that you can hit if you jump too high and another if you don't jump far enough.... I just had the phrase, what's the worse that can happen ( something that one of the other people on the tour keeps repeating to me) and decided to take the leap. Fun shit. Also when getting off he gave us the same adrenaline optoon but would not tell us what it was.... So i did it and next thing I know i was flipped in the freezing cold water laughingy ass off. The rest of the group opted not to do it after they saw what it was. All in all it was a great day and I am glad that I decided to do it. No regrets.

We then went to a modern Maori town and spoke to a man there and learned more about the Maori people in the past and today. I also had to give another speech since I was elected chief of our group, sang a song to the man that let us into his home and he taught us a haka. We also played a classic Maori game that was used to practice their crazy eyes and screams which just reminded me of a drinking game.

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