Everyone says that glowworms look like stars lit up across the cave sky. This seems like an easy metaphor, what with the tiny blue lights twinkling above on a canvas of darkness. Really, it’s a maggot, not a worm, whose pancreatic organ produces the bioluminescence. It’s not nearly as romantic…
Digging hot springs on the beach, visiting a water powered mom-and-pop theme park, touring a thermal Maori village with a resident, meeting the friendly airbnb hosts, and being guided into a massive glowworm cave by a guy who grew up exploring the caverns… Nowhere else in the world can you…