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Norwest Adventures Ltd
The Charleston Hotel, State Highway 6,
PO Box 7
Charleston 7865
West Coast
New Zealand
Phone : 03 7888 168
Fax : 03 789 5508
Email : norwest@orcon.net.nz
Web : www.caverafting.com
Contact Person: Geoff Schurr
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Underworld Rafting
This is our premier activity & the one for which we have developed our international reputation. Underworld Rafting is a very special Cave Rafting adventure where you take The Rainforest Train to explore the formation filled upper levels in one of NZ’s largest cave systems before encountering an underground lake on which you will float beneath the most amazing displays of GlowWorms. You complete the journey having fun by bouncing down the Nile River Rapids.
This is a soft eco-adventure suited to those with confidence in water, 10 and over.
Allow 4hrs.
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The Glow Worm Cave Tour
Is a dry passive version of the internationally acclaimed "Underworld Rafting". In this fully interpreted soft eco-tour visitors travel by Rainforest Train to the huge Nile River GlowWorm Caves System where they are spellbound by the spectacular arrays of Stalactites and Stalagmites and surreal galaxies of GlowWorms. This activity is suited for all who can walk unassisted on uneven surfaces.
Allow 3.5 - 4hrs
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Adventure Caving
Is full-on expedition style caving at its best- complete with abseils, climbs, crawls and squeezes. This is a challenging world class adventure suited only to those fit in body and mind, Suited to those 16 and older.
Allow 5hrs
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The Nile River Rainforest Train
Is a short interpretative train journey in open carriages through primeval rain forests in the Nile River Canyon. You will pass through the film sites of "The Lost World" and explore majestic cave & karst country. Suited to all, young & old, fit or not so fit. There is wheel chair access.
Allow 1.5hrs return.
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