Waitomo Cave

I thought that only three of us were going to Waitomo Cave, and eventually we've got 9 people - 1 Taiwanese, 2 Thailand students and 6 Japanese...somewhat dissapoining (never speak English). Anyway, we still went to the destination with the guide - Ian (from E-Tour). On the way to the cave, we drove throuth a town which most of the building were hanging flowers. The town is called rose something (sorry, I've forgotten). Arriving at the cave, we saw a ...somewhat trivial rock wall (personal feeling). Walking into the cave and found that the inside was much larger and more gorgeous that we had thought. Well, we really shouldn't judge a 'cave' from their looks. We saw the glowworm light on the boat and that was just fantastic. Some said Waitomo cave is boring and has nothing to see, but I think the 'glowworm galaxy' does worth a visit. Unforunately, we also saw the record of suvenior hunters. The screaming of the babies is also obnoxious. After the lunch (the pizza was nice. the bacons were extremely hard, though), we headed toward the kiwi house. In the dark room, there were 2 kiwi birds walking around. Due to extremely sensitive to the flash light, we were not allowed to use flash light when taking the photos. In such darkness, I suppose nobody would be able to take photos without flash. But anyway, the kiwi birds are much bigger and more cute than we'd thought. Some Japanese mates said they'd like to bring back to Japan as a pet. Surely no way. It was about 1620 when we came back to LI, and due to the weekend, we had to wait for the bus until 1715 (i.e. near 1 hr). So we had a boring waiting time after the fantastic rushing time.