Waitomo Cave - details and images

Few people live in this place. "Waitomo" comes from the Maori language in the "wai" means water and "Thomas" means Valley. This can be translated as "water passing through a hole."

These caves are famous for fireflies "Arachnocampa brighter" in practice, these caves that illuminate them. Tourism in these places began around 1900. These caves are famous for its fireflies and stalagmites and stalactites of them present.


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