The Legendary Black Water Rafting Company

To book go to - www.waitomo.com. An exhilarating underground caving and rafting adventure. Three tours to choose from - namely Black Labyrinth, Black Abyss and all new Black Odyssey, there is something to suit all adventurous spirits.
The Legendary Black Water Rafting Co. is New Zealand's first black water rafting adventure operator. And it's also the only tour that takes you through the incomparable Ruakuri Cave.
Each Waitomo Caves Black Water Rafting expedition includes around 6-12 people guided by expert guides who will support and encourage you through the whole breathtaking caving tour.

[@PaigePiskinTV]

This looks incredible!!

[@ILovethissongnow]

This looks AMAYYYYYZING!!

[@kellykolak8584]

this was the coolest thing i have ever done!

[@SnowCrasher]

Did... did they make a via ferrata in the cave?! Whoa. Both adventures look pretty extreme!

[@DiscoverWaitomo]

Yes the Black Odyssey is kinda like via ferrata - it is our dry and warm adventure!

[@liberator48]

I guess i'm too fat for this being 1.93m and weighing 140kg? Look fun though.

[@NCftball212]

They may tell you the water is warm... it is not... :)

[@DiscoverWaitomo]

No one will say it is warm! No illusions here - it is water in a cave after all!

[@proudpoly3479]

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[@proudpoly3479]

I met this Angus chap once. What an underwhelming guy. One of those Pakeha full on his one sense of self-importance. When I asked him about the local Maori history he was basically an empty vessel, you could tell it didn't interest him, he didn't want to engage meaningfully about it and he basically didn't. Yet here he is in a place where Maori intuition off of the back of Taane Tinorau created a tourism dynasty, a dynasty that is the very catalyst for the Waitomo tourism industry as a whole. I know this by some very basic reading, yet this Angus guy couldn't expand a millimetre on the very little I know. Yeah, I was disgusted by this guys ignorance. Perhaps he's just a racist, if so I can actually understand that in that I know racism is isolated, that people like him aren't the norm and in fact the exception. So yeah, I think he's just one of those rare closet racists and not reflective of Waitomo as a whole.

[@cathdodd5072]

Hi Poly, this is a really hard topic to tackle as I personally think few Pakeha New Zealanders would identify themselves as racist and would be offended with the implication. But you raise an important point, which is the stunning lack of acknowledgement and knowledge of the Maori history of our country. Maybe this is a question of ignorance- willful ignorance on the part of some, such in the case of willfully mispronouncing Maori placenames or being hostile towards things like Maori language week or the observance of Matariki. Then there is ignorance based on the fact that for my generation, very little of our pre-20th century NZ history was taught in school and there are some massive gaps in our collective knowledge of how NZ was founded and Maori history has not been honoured the way that it should have. For some people it is not a priority, for some it's an embarrassing oversight. I personally come from the south of the South Island, white than white down there, and I know very little. I am ashamed of that and am trying to fill the gaps in my knowledge. Hopefully now with the NZ history curriculum being revamped in schools, we can finally put this to right.