Auckland to Rotorua including Waitomo and Rotorua Experience with GreatSights

Auckland to Rotorua including Waitomo and Rotorua Experience with GreatSights
Auckland to Rotorua including Waitomo and Rotorua Experience with GreatSights
Auckland to Rotorua including Waitomo and Rotorua Experience with GreatSights
Auckland to Rotorua including Waitomo and Rotorua Experience with GreatSights

This full day tour has it all! From the magical glowworms and world-famous limestone formations of Waitomo to the rich cultural heritage and geothermal bounty of Rotorua. Leaving Auckland in the morning you travel through the lush farmland of the Waikato and King Country regions. Enjoy a morning snack as you drive past Rangiriri, the location of an historic Maori Land Wars site. On arrival in the small town of Waitomo enjoy a guided tour through the world famous Waitomo Glowworm Caves with their amazing stalactites, stalagmites and other limestone formations. Finish the tour with a silent boat ride through the Glowworm Grotto - a subterranean cavern lit up by the lights of thousands of tiny glowworms. Leaving Waitomo enjoy a delicious picnic style lunch as you make your way to Rotorua. Arrive at the Agrodome on the outskirts of Rotorua and take a tour of an organic working farm in all terrain vehicles. Watch a sheep being shorn and view a sheep dog trial. Leaving the Agrodome you make your way to Te Puia, one of New Zealand's foremost cultural venues. At Te Puia's marae (meeting house) enjoy a Maori cultural performance where ancient and modern stories are told through song, dance, poi and stick games. At the conclusion of the Maori cultural performance you enjoy a guided tour of the bubbling mud pools and active geysers of the Te Whakarewarewa Thermal Valley including the world renowned Pohutu geyser. The tour also includes a visit to Te Puia's woodcarving and weaving schools where apprentices are trained in these traditional skills by master carvers and weavers.