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doors and windows, tables, chairs and beds
where some of your guide's ancestors found their last rest.
Please respect their remains and the cave’s uniqueness and do
not take anything with you from there but the strong visual,
tactile and acoustic impressions that you can gather on the
guided tour. The cave is ample and relatively easy to walk through,
but visitors should wear good, firm shoes and bring along a
torch light, especially, if you want to take photos. Make sure
you have plenty of film, because you will be unable to stop!
Aue does not have his own vehicle, so it is required that you
have your own transport to the cave’s entrance. Aue will collect
you from your accommodation. |
Stalactite
inside Raka's Cave
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The
2-hour tour costs $ 15.00 per person. On
request and for an addition of $ 5.00, your guide Aue
Rakanui will take you right through the rain
forest and share with you his forefathers’ knowledge of the
makatea’s plants: for food, for medicines and – for poisons.
If you still want more, top it up with another five dollars
and follow Aue along the reef and learn all over again! Both
optional additions to his tour will add an approximate hour
and a half each. The visit to Raka’s Cave (Te
Ana o Rakanui) can be booked through your accommodator
or by ringing Aue directly at his home telephone number +682
33256. |
