Waitomo Cave Tourism Places

Stonehenge Tourist Place 

Stonehenge is Britain's most famous and impressive prehistoric site. It is a massive circle of stones, on
the Salisbury plains in Wiltshire. 

There are several myths attached to it. One story says that the wizard Merlin transported it from Ireland to England. Another says that is a druid temple where human sacrifice was offered. 

Archeologically, stonehenge was built in the late Neolithic and early Bronze age periods. The earliest
construction was an outer circle 322 feet in diameter, surrounded by a ditch. Just inside the bank 56 pits were dug up, but holes. In the northeast a gap forms the entrance. A large flat stone is known as the slaughter stone or sacrificial altar. Along the pathway called the 'Avenue' is another large stone called heel stone. In about 2400 BC, the Beaker folk or the early Bronze age people added two circles of blue stones in the centre of the site. 

Later in about 2100 BC the bluestones were replaced by the massive sarcen sand stone blocks. Some of these stones were more than 30 feet long and weighed 49 tons. These were placed in a perfect circle, of 30 uprights capped with horizontal or lintel pieces. The lintels are dove tailed into each other and held in position by mortice and tenon joints. The blue stones were again added just around the altar stone. 

It is likely that it was a place of Sun worship but it might have also functioned as an observatory, proving that the bronze age people had advanced knowledge of geometry and astronomy. 

Waitomo Caves Tourism Place 

Waitomo caves, is a national reserve in New Zealand lying 120 miles south of Auckland in the North Island. 

The remarkable feature of these limestone cave systems that makes them a natural wonder is the famous "Glow Worm Grotto". 

In the Maori language 'Waitomo' means 'Water in going' because of the underground river. 

Today, visitors enter through a small door in the hillside, about 59 feet above the water. There are many
caves, galleries with shining stalactite and stalagmite formations. The path slopes down to a sub terranean lake. Visitors go in, by boat silently and in darkness. Countless points of green blue light appear on the cave roof. The cave is transformed into a planetarium with countless start twinkling. Hanging down from the roof, on Cobweb like filaments are the Waitomo's glow worms that shine like stars.