After a few hours starving Hamish pushed some food over. Just to let me shut up ;) No kidding, just was a bit too long starving. Later that afternoon I had a pick-up with some other experience members. OUr driver was wicked, but Kewl! We had an official entrance. With dances and stuff. (excepting hospitality offers and to make sure we were friends) After that we got a peak into the Mari village. And a sort of show which told us a bit about rituals and used music instruments. Ater that show we got to the dining room. OUr tabel was last to eat!! But I have to say that it was extrordinary good foor. (specially cooked in a hole in the ground for the entire day) After that I shopped a bit around. Got a good bye ceremony. And a wicked drive home. Was exhausting and got straight to bed. This morning the packing started all over again. Dropped at the bus and talked so much to Hamish that I forgot to write down the name of our dining town. Or the town we went for a woolworth shop. But I ended in Waitomo. I booked in for 2 nights. Threw my stuff at my bed and went straight to some black water rafting. (5 hours) They first put you in lots of clothing you almost never wear. Wetsuit, short, shirt, footies, gloves, helmets and shoes. Already wet from an earlier trip. :s They send you to this cave where you go abseiling down. then a little bit of swinging down on a rope. ('tokelen' in dutch I believe) Then we got some tea. and a dive in the cold water. We tubed for a little while watched the glowworms. Plus the whole lifestory of them. They're realy disguisting animals. After we got back we had a long walk through the water in the caves. (I just kept falling, clumsy me ;) To go up we needed a lot of climbs. We did it the spectaculair way. We climbed it over small waterfalls! It was so gourgious and kewl! So it was a shame it was already over. Got out of our clothes (taked a long time!) and then had a nice hot shower after al that cold water. When we had changed, we got some nice warm soup and a bagel. Then we went of for 'home'. Just been to the internet and now of for some pizza with Hamish. Going now because I'm hungry.
nicky | 08 Oct 2004 (Fri), 01:49 @ story | TBhai nicky,
You've had a lot of adventure. that's nice to hear. yes, in dutch we call it 'tokkelen'. I've did it myself and it feels great, don't you think?! though you don't sleep very much, you are enjoying everything. that's wonderfull!
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