The caves of Waitomo, an extensive network of 80 different caverns located under a small town on New Zealand’s North Island, were first explored in 1887 by a tribal chief of Maori peoples native to ...

Researchers have been getting their feet wet on the hunt for fishy invaders under the twinkle of Waitomo Caves’ glowworms. The renowned tourist attraction hosts thousands of visitors per year, but not ...

Middle-earth, aka Hobbiton, isn’t the only place in New Zealand where you can feel like you’ve stepped into another realm. The Waitomo Caves are on New Zealand’s North Island, about 220 km (137 miles) ...

Now, this is my kind of rave. It's underground. The acoustics are excellent. And it doesn't even matter if you've forgotten your glowsticks - thousands of fluorescent little beasties on the ceiling ...

The Waitomo Caves have taken aeons to form; it takes a century for one cubic centimetre of rock to form. A visit to Waitomo has long been on our family's holiday "to do" list, something we'd usually ...

Long ago Waitomo Caves staff named two eels living in the cave system "Smeagol" and "Gollum". These names, from a Lord of the Rings character famously played by Andy Serkis, seem prophetic. Last month ...

The glowworm is the larval stage of a fungus gnat found only in New Zealand. Through a chemical reaction between luciferin and the enzyme luciferase, it produces cold blue-green light. This ...

Middle-earth, aka Hobbiton, isn’t the only place in New Zealand where you can feel like you’ve stepped into another realm. The Waitomo Caves are on New Zealand’s North Island, about 220 km (137 miles) ...