We headed to the small town of Charleston, NZ, which used to be a gold mining boom town in the 1860s - the Glowworm Cave tour operates from there. We went to a clearing, andthe staff took their little train out of the garage.
We rode the train for about 10 minutes through incredible rain forest - then disembarked, got suited up in wet suits and other gear, and then hiked for about 15-20 minutes, including up 130 stairs to the cave entrance. Along the way, we picked up huge inner tubes. For a while, we explored the cave and formations, and then put our inner tubes in the cave river. There were three of us plus the guide - we made our inner tubes into a chain, and floated backwards on our backs, looking above our heads to see an incredible display of glowworms on the ceiling and walls of the cave. It was like seeing the Milky Way, or a ceiling covered in Christmas lights, while in the completely quiet and beautifully isolated environment of a cave. Once out, we rode the tubes over some gentle whitewater down the river - the river was low, sowe got what ws described as a "river spanking."
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