Underworld rafting in Te Ananui

Anyone with even the slightest in caves – and a moderate degree of fitness – should sign up for this unique underground cave experience. Where else can you float in a magical glow worm-infested cavern?

Half-day tours start with a train ride into the wildlife-filled rainforest. It’s then a short walk to the start, where you climb down into the ancient Te Ananui cave system of

Expert guides, offering commentary along the way, take you through the maze of caves, caverns and grottoes filled with stalactites and stalagmites. Your destination is a huge underground lake in a vast cavern, eerily lit by a galaxy of fluorescent blue bulbs, belonging to the millions of glow worms dangling from the cavern ceiling. From here you float out on the gentle rapids of the Waitakere River, back into the rainforest.