Cook Islands Cultural Village Rarotonga

... to the airport we bid farewell to Jone and checked in at a nice empty counter for flight NZ44 to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. At the airport's Italian restaurant we sliced through pizza slices in record time before negotiating our way through security ...

Day 106 - 29th July 2006 - Rarotonga, The Cook Islands Well it's officially Groundhog Day - but no Bill Murray to ease us through - merely torrential downpours, begging and public transport! But we're in Rarotonga right? Oh yes - the dry season, ...

... my stay and had achieved basically nothing.  I decided that the next morning I would visit the 'Highland Paradise Cultural Village'. Research has backed up the Maori belief that Polyenesian travellers arrived in New Zealand around 1000 year ago, ...