TeAnau is a great city, with amazing scenery. The hotel we stayed in was just feet from the water, and the view was to die for!
The glow worm caves are in TeAnau, which was one of the reasons we headed over to this part of New Zealand. The caves were rediscovered in the 1940s, and are breathtaking. In order to get into the caves, you have to bend over, and walk through this rock tunnel. The caves are filled with rushing water, limestone, and glow worms. Glow worms (which are actually a maggot) are worms that make web patterns to catch their food. The worms butts glow, to help attract the insects.
After walking deep into the caves, admiring the water and huge pieces of limestone, the cave gets pitch black. We were then loaded onto a boat, and then all we had to to is look up. It looked like thousands of LED lights lighting up the sky. It was quite a wonderful sight!
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Doug and I would love to do that! We have seen a few glow worms here(I am sure different than those), and didn't know until a couple of years ago that they were here. That would be so be beautiful.
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