ARANUI CAVE

Exploring Aranui Cave.

This was actually my least favourite of the three caves we visited in Waitomo: Ruakuri Cave; The Glowworm Cave; and this one, Aranui Cave. It's the smallest of the three and therefore the least impressive. It did afford us some beautiful stalactites and stalagmites but didn't hold a candle to the far more exciting Ruakuri Cave.  Plus, the utterly creepy cave bug native to the area lives in this cave and I have no desire to ever make it's acquaintance again! The cave weta was huge and so so so freaky. Speaking of freaky, how strange that some of the formations end up looking like something else! Check out the wicked witch formation!