Take a journey into the guts of the Central North Island, taking within the Waitomo Caves and Hobbiton Film Set on a full-day sightseeing tour. Setting off from Auckland, journey by means of the luxurious farmland of the Waikato and King Nation areas, having fun with your driver information's entertaining and informative commentary. Take a guided tour of the well-known Hobbiton Film Set, situated inside a picturesque 1,250 acre sheep and beef farm close to Matamata. Right here, the village of Hobbiton was fastidiously created in superb element as a movie location for the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies. Throughout your guided tour of this superb location you'll see sights like Hobbit holes, the Mill and the Inexperienced Dragon Inn, and find out how farmland was reworked right into a residing, respiration piece of Center-earth. After exploring Hobbiton, tuck right into a scrumptious lunch on the Inexperienced Dragon Inn.
On the world well-known Waitomo Glowworm Caves, take a 45-minute guided tour by means of spectacular underground caverns and find out how stalactites, stalagmites and different limestone buildings had been fashioned over tens of millions of years. Your tour features a boat journey by means of the Glowworm Grotto – glide silently alongside an underground river as you gaze on the twinkling glowworms overhead. After visiting Waitomo and Hobbiton, proceed to Rotorua, arriving within the early night.
Length: 10.5 Hours
Departs: 8 a.m. – Returns: 6 p.m.
From: Rotorua