Experience a Cave Boating experience like no other – complete with stupendous developments, water-etched gorge and one of the World’s best GlowWorm shows.

Somewhere between Punakaiki and Westport, in the breathtaking Paparoa Public Park, lies the immaculate Metro/Te Ananui cave, your passage to the recollections that could only be described as epic with the honor winning Hidden world Boating.

This is untamed, regular experience at its ideal. Find the reason why!

NZD $195/adult
NZD $155/child (16 Years of age and under)
Family NZD $650 (2 adults, 2 children)

Key information

• Should be 10 years or over
• Water certainty required
• Some wellness expected as there are 132 moves toward move to the cave
• Simply bring your Swimwear and a towel – we’ll give any remaining hardware
• Permit 4 hours from our Hidden world Experience Place in Charleston
• Trips withdraw 9am and 11.30am summer (October to April – Sunlight Investment funds Time) and 10 am winter (May to September)
• We photo your outing and give free downloads

About the activity

Your Hidden world Boating experience begins with your amicable, nearby aide at our cutting edge base in Charleston. They’ll furnish you with all of the specific stuff you really want to remain protected and warm and brief you on the experience ahead. Dressed and prepared for your experience, it’s simply a short drive in our van to the Nile Stream Rainforest Trains, Dorothy and Cecil. They will bring you profound into the shocking West Coast Rainforest with transcending limestone bluffs and productive local untamed life.

A short walk prompts the entry of the Metro Cave/Te Ananui, high over the Nile/Waitakere Stream. Venturing into this underground wonderland, you will investigate a calcite heaven of tapered rocks and stalagmites, cross gigantic loads, follow a labyrinth of entries and meander through the core of an old staggered cave framework. Improved with stories and clarifications from your educated aide, your final location is an underground lake in a gigantic cavern.

Here you’ll track down our popular worlds of GlowWorms, where they line the whole top of the cavern. We’ll explore by their groups of stars through the stunning showcase and delicately float on the lake to the resurgence of the streamway.

You leave this exceptional spot drifting in your cylinder down the tomfoolery however delicate rapids of the unblemished Nile/Waitakere Waterway encompassed by the rich tropical jungle. Getting with the Rainforest Train once again to Charleston for a hot shower, this unique spot stays stowed away, yet your recollections will remain until the end of time.

Really like to remain dry? Attempt our GlowWorm Cave Tour – set in a similar shocking Te Ananui/Metro Cave framework, this all-ages tour envelops lovely developments, entrancing information from our proficient aides and obviously our widely popular GlowWorm show!

Risk revelation proclamation

If it’s not too much trouble, tell the truth in the event that you can’t meet any of the accompanying circumstances as your failure to do so could endanger yourself and others.

This activity requires “YOU”, the member, to…

Have a sensible norm of wellness (practically identical to having the option to “walk unassisted for as long as two hours”). There is a risk of staggering, falling or slipping while strolling through the cave which can possibly cause a serious clinical physical issue/misfortune.

Have the option to comprehend and adhere to directions given to you by your Aide. This incorporates being level-headed and not affected by any substance that might obstruct your capacity to securely explore the cave and to adhere to directions. (Inability to do so could put you and your party at significant risk).

Hidden world Boating includes…

• Changing into a two piece 5mm wetsuit, complete with wet suit socks, boots and gloves. You will likewise be given a protective cap (with light) and life coat.
• A 10-min drive and a 15 min Train Ride into the Nile Stream Gully.
• Conveying an inward cylinder across the Nile Stream and up 131 stages (identical to a 6-7 story working) to the cave entrance.
• Conveying your internal cylinder over normal unformed surfaces, both to the cave, then through the enormous, profoundly adorned upper cave entries, where it is feasible to slip, trip or otherwise fall.
• Drifting through enormous GlowWorm-lit caves, and rowing through the cave exit to the Nile Waterway in your cylinder.
• Crossing a 700 m part of the Waitekeri/Nile Waterway, including 4 short, shallow rapids and a few more profound, still pools.
• Getting back to our base via train and minibus.

Ordinary Waterway Stream: In typical stream the rapids are short and shallow. You can stand and stroll to the water’s edge whenever required.

Medium Waterway Stream: In medium stream the rapids are quick and flushing. It is preposterous to expect to remain in the moving water and you are expected to be certain about water to partake.

High Waterway Stream: The Te Ananui Stream and Nile Waterway areas of the excursion will be dropped when the stream is in High Stream.

While not normal, there is plausible that you might drop out of your cylinder while on the moving water. Would it be a good idea for you drop out of your cylinder you might be under the water for a brief time frame and you should have the option to swim with your cylinder to the water’s edge to get once more into your cylinder. Hence you ought to be certain about water.

There are no handrails, walkways or framework inside the cave to help you. You ought to therefore be certain with your balance and glad to explore lopsided surfaces and steps.

Hidden world Undertakings has an extensive Security The executives Plan and all guides are prepared in how to stay away from and moderate distinguished risks.

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