It was an adventurous day indeed. Another first time in our lifetime. Imagine this: abseiling 35 metres into the cave, passing through a narrow gap, flying fox (though quite short distance, but in total darkness with the glittering of glow worms), then jumping into the river (10degree celcius!) with a tube, floating through the river system to admire the glow worms, hiking and swimming in the caves,and finally climbing up two waterfalls! How Great is that?!
Practicing abseiling before the real thing...
There were two pretty cave guides, Janna and Anne. The abseiling is pretty easy, well for the girls. For the guys, it would be pretty 'uncomfortable' or painful going down. Lol.
Once everyone reached the bottom, we cling on to the flying fox and 'fly' inside the cave, in total darkness! Gosh it was so exciting. Janna made some banging sound which scares ANgie a LOT LOT since she's the first to go on the fox.
Getting ready to jump into the river with this black tube and do the black water rafting!
THis is a really blur picture as Anne try to capture these tiny lil glow worms!
It was nice laying back, floating on the tube, watching the glow worms but after a while our neck start to ache... oh gosh...
A: Obviously my helmet is not the right size =.=
The cave formation is not the 'amazing' thing but the main highlight of this tour is the adrenalin rush!
Crossing this cave tunnel, our whole body had to submerge in this freezing cold water....
Then at 61 metres depth, we had hot orange juice and chocolate after hiking in the river. Peter is freezing cold, then Anne use the remaining hot juice to pour into Pete's wetsuit. Warming him up a lil. Eat more fats Pete!
The last obstacle of the tour, we can choose whether to climb two waterfalls or use another easy way out. So both of us went for the waterfalls for sure! The guide is there to tell us which foot and hand to put where, so it is not that difficult.
YAY we made it!
When we want to take the final group picture, the guide had drop the camera down the waterfall! Oh no.... We have intended to purchase those pics, but now that its gone... Now that we are able to post those pictures above, they have found the camera, amazingly inside this cave =) and they mailed the photo CD to Malaysia for free! woohoo....
The whole tour is exhaustive, and cold all the way. But we had our hot showers and soup and bagel to warm up after which is really nice!
For us it was well worth the experience because it's a special adventure. We seen quite a few caves in OZ but none offer such experience. Another tour company, Waitomo Adventures offers also tours like this, they have a LOst WOrld 7 hour epic with 100metres abseiling.. OMG...
After the intensive adventure, we relax at the hostel wondering at these little fellas...
THis is one unique HOG! Curly hair and nose ring??
Pete's fav fruit, we intend to consume lifetime kiwi intake while in NZ! =D
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