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Rarotonga Slideshow
Rarotonga
Travel Blogs from Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Dec 20, 2009
Rarotonga
We spent 1 week here on the gorgeous Island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, South pacific. It was a weird beginning because we crossed the date line which meant that we arrived before we left (if that makes sense) - so we gained 1 day. We stayed in a ...
Finally arrived
After arriving after midnight local time (3am for us) we crashed and didn't get up until midday... followed by a short exploration of the resort and lagoon... beautiful! After exploring a little we hired a scooter for 3 days to make it easier to get ...
Paradise #3 - now you're paying for it.....
... from New Zealand or Australia but some from the UK or Scandinavia. We feel really lucky to have been able to visit and enjoy the Cook Islands, and we would love to return one day (though the distance and the cost make that quite unlikely for some time!). ...
Rarotonga - Cook Islands
For years I've wanted to visit the iconic Cook islands in the south pacific. A collection of small islands seperated in either direction by 100 miles of south pacific ocean . Each island is the tip of a volcano that rises from the ocean .Rarotonga's ...
I just can't be bothered to move....
... , finally it was time for the main attraction. It was a club and we were treated to an hour and a half of traditional Cook Islands music and dancing. The music was brilliant, very exciting as it was really fast drumming and very upbeat, but the real ...
Off to Church
... dining alone, we are the only ones eating what can only be described as an apology for Italian cooking. Sunday morning in the Cook Islands means going to church and as just about everything else is closed on a Sunday, it’s the main thing to ...
Raratonga
Hotel: Vera's Beach House $20 NZD per night for Dormitory Arrived this morning at about 9am after 10 hours of flying. The flight wasn't as bad as I had thought and the property Vera's Beach House collected me from the airport. I am staying in a ...
No landings at Cook Islands
... drawer came loose and started banging against the cupboard wall. Were able to stop it, though. We woke as we were approaching Rarotonga. There is no barrier reef here; the Tahitian Princess only anchors off shore, then tenders in. Paul and I reached ...
Just another day in paradise
... them a lifetime. Cue bonding as went to stand on a sea wall in the jetblast zone as a flight landed on Rarotonga's apparently infamously short runway. Sometimes you have to find your own entertainment in paradise. Then, at the eleventh hour, ...
somewhere over the ocean
The flight was so dull had seat free next to me so streched out and tried to sleep for most of it. Plane stopped in the Cook Islands for an hour it was 25 degrees at 5am!!!! it look lovely though would love to visit there ...
Cooking up some fun in the Tropics
... in and figured each others’ routines. It was a very inexpensive way (the cheapest housing we could find on Rarotonga) to experience the Cook Islands, with the bonus of getting to know a local Maori family and learn their perspective of the island ...
Cook Islands trip hazards 1: Breadfruit...
Trip hazards are a-plenty on Rarotonga, capital of The Cook islands: And Fallen fruit is hard to avoid. Sour sop (like a custard apple, apparently), breadfruit (Cap'n Cook’s man thought it looked like bread) and the foul, ammoniac goat’s ...
2nd birthday on South Pacific Island.....Rarotonga
... War II, and then the cook islanders extended the runway, into the actual reef due to the countries terrain for tourism. The Cook Islands are an archipelago made of many small coral atolls and quays, as well as the largest of them all Rarotonga. Once ...
Rarotonga (Cook-Islands)
... sogar einen Hai!. Nachtrag vom 24.Aug.06: Nach unserem Outer-Island-Trip verbrachten wir unseren letzten Cook-Island Tag nochmals auf Rarotonga an der Westkueste. Wir machten Strandspaziergaenge, lasen auf unserem Balkon mit super Aussicht und gingen ...
Big Fish, Bad Fish, BBQ Fish.
More fishing. Yay. Out with the Seafari guys this time. A smaller, very basic boat but the fish can't tell the difference. We trawl around aimlessly again chasing flocks of birds and we spy Mahi Mahi in the water as we did yesterday but they just ...
Cross-island walk
... spectacular views were worth it. The walk took almost all day, so by the time we got back to the resort it was time for an early dinner and off to bed so we could get up early to get the 2am flight back to Auckland. Our Cook Is experience was at an ...
Tropical mix - white sand, lagoons & coconuts
... a security dog sniffing suitcases whilst on the moving conveyor belt - hilarious! Anyway, here we were in Rarotonga, capital island of the Cook Islands. A lush island of palm trees, frangipani, bougainvillea etc. Our hotel was on the South side with ...
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
... en bar som heter Banana Court, en visstnok veldig kjent bar fra gamle dager. Ellers drar vi videre til en annen oy som tilhorer Cook Islands i morgen, Aitutaki heter den. Der er det visstnok en veldig fin lagune, og vi haaper paa litt bedre vaer der! ...
Seven days in Rarotonga December 5th - 13, 2006
... South Pacific. Rarotonga, Cook Islands will be my first visit to the South Pacific. Tuesday, December 5, 2006 I arrived in Rarotonga, Cook Islands at 9:05 PM, the day before I left! Having crossed the international date line, I had to push my ...
A small corner of paradise
... tropical paradise. I had wondered how much I would really like Raro, especially after sailing roung Kadavu. I'd had deserted islands and perfect beaches to myself- how would I adapt to being back in an area where there was actually a tourist ...