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Rarotonga Slideshow
Rarotonga
Travel Blogs from Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Are we away from home yet?
... . As everybody nodded in agreement we heard the roar of the waves breaking on the reef 400 m off the shore of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. We still can't believe we are here. Our days have been filled with a mixture of physical activity and ...
Slipping into 'island time'
We are just reaching the end of an incredible two week stay on Rarotonga, the largest of the Cook Islands. Set in a sheltered lagoon in the middle of the South Pacific, it's a tropical island paradise. We’ve spent our time relaxing, swimming out to ...
vrrroooommmm
Raro is much more my speed. Which isn't to say it's fast paced. There are exactly one roundabout and one pedestrian crosswalk on this island, and zero stop signs or traffic lights. It moves slow, but it moves. I met up with Aaron again when I arrived ...
Change of Heart
I thought that I had made the wrong choice coming to this backpackers initially - I mean in the first few days. The first day was okay, glorious sunshine, new place to explore - new people but then it rained and I pulled my hair out and wished my time ...
Chilling in Rarotonga
... since I last wrote - sorry about that - I've just been having too much fun chilling out and diving here in Rarotonga, the capital of the Cook Islands. It's so so laid back here - island life is great. I definitely feel like a traveller now as I have ...
Pigs in the back yard
... with flowers - now you don't get that in Heathrow!. Quick hour stop over and we were back in the plane for a quick flight to Rarotonga. 23/10/03 Arrived on the island about 6am, all very tired and tried to work out how to get to the hostel as the ...
Cook Island adventures
Wow.....wow....am i really here....This is totally amazing.....well i arrived on what i thought was tuesday evening, early wed morning...as i left New Zeland at 7pm tues eve...well when i arrived i found out it was only monday evening! Tuesday was just ...
And so it begins, in Rarotonga...
Rarotonga, Cook Islands, South Pacific 07/09/06 - 21/09/06 Oh my goodness, what a beautiful place! The weather is tropical (mostly sunny and hot but occasional wind and rain) Everyone is so friendly, life is very basic but carefree. I stayed at Vara's ...
It’s Summer outside...and winter inside
Há dias em que se sai de barbatanas amarradas aos pulsos (uma questão de estilo pessoal...gosto da barbatana para fora, a dar uma diferente noção de espaço do veiculo ligeiro), óculo de snorkel na sacola e, trauteando um "verão azul", lá se vai ...
Not just lazing around!!!
Today, we woke to more cloud and wind though still warm. Gra decided to hire a bike and have some exercise but since I had a very sore throat I decided to go shopping!! Gra cycled all the way round the island by the inner road (there are 2 roads, ...
Easy Rider, or Not
... out that a freak storm had moved through the area about a ½ mile from us, creating the worst tornado ever reported on the Cook Islands. No one was injured but many local homes had their roofs torn off, while another house had its veranda and half ...
Day 83 - Rainy Island Days
... Nights" last night. I'd been waiting for this all week. It consisted of an island style buffet with local foods being prepared and a Cook Island dance show. The food was awesome! The show was beautiful. There were dancers from the age of 4 to about 21. ...
Thank you guys! Farewell to the Cooks!
... , Ben & Hayley, Vicki, Dor, Sam, Stan; Thank you Tom, Rachel, J, Eira and everybody at da Batch For making Rarotonga...along with some other most friendly, sympathetic people i've met along the way! You all ROCK! Hope to meet you guys soon...! E ...
Tropiki inaczej
Wydaje się często, że tropikalne wyspy to tylko plaża i laguna, a tu nie dość że Ocean to jeszcze górki. Postanowiliśmy się zmierzyć, takie to niecałe 500m wysokości nie ...
Dances and Dives
... played in cultures across the world. Afterwards they had another feast, in which the food was cooked in an umu, which is when they cook the food in a hole in the ground. Still not a fan of the food. The past 4 days I have spent diving and ...
Back to Rarotonga
We left Aitutaki for Rarotonga. Dave picked us up from the airport and delivered us to his house. Kathy soon arrived and we had a great time talking and waddling in the lagoon in front of their house. That evening two of their friends came for dinner and ...
Sun
... been sold down the docks just yet but will see how the money goes, sorry Steelso! Currently in Rarotonga waiting for the plane tonight to Fiji. Enjoyed cook islands a lot, the people are great. Swapped a few email addresses with some of the other ...
Crossing the island
... O que é que é indispensável para uma boa e robusta travessia da ilha pelo cénico percurso sobre os montes de Rarotonga? Várias coisas: Vontade suficiente para irritar um porco que ameaça morder quem lhe pareça querer roubar a comida; Um ...
The island dance
... dá para ir beber um copo porque vou mesmo agora destruir a bunda”. Para além destas danças, os habitantes das Cook islands, são conhecidos por serem exímios dançarinos. As danças locais são especialmente exigentes. Um mistura de samba, com ...
Island Nights Dancing
... the most wonderful show this evening. It included a great local cuisine buffet dinner and front row seats to the Edgewater Resort's Island Nights. The Cook Island dancing is some of the best dancing in Polynesia. Check out the video. The kids are ...
The international date line crossing
... 24 pessoas, me pode observar a dormitar (silencioso, em boa verdade, mas desagradável de ser ver). Chegada às Cook Islands, a Rarotonga, a ilha principal. Sobre os primeiros momentos de Cook Islands...a reter: A senhora chefe de cabine, no avião, ...
Day 87 - Awesome evening with Awesome New Friends
We spent the day at our favorite beach spot on the south side, snorkeling and relaxing. That evening we went to Kathy and Dave's house for dinner. Annie, the woman we met at the HASH event who is from Carlsbad was there and her husband Dave showed up ...
Honeymoon in the blue lagoon
9 July 06 - 16 July 06 Our honeymoon started by 10 days in a condo on the main island of the Cook Islands (there are several). So great to fully relax! And yes, even if it was a very small wedding, we stressed a little bit! But for 10 days it is an ...
Two VERY LAZY weeks in the Cook Islands
Who would have thought that sleepy ole Rarotonga would be such a rollercoaster ride... The fun started when we arrived in Rarotonga - the day before we left Auckland! Then we experienced our second "Friday 11th June 2004" this year. We were met at ...
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Friday 6th February - Day 24 - Rarotonga, Cook Islands We docked just off Rarotonga at approximately 8am, there had been some doubt as to whether we would be able to visit the island due to weather conditions - the previous cruise had had to divert due ...
At Sea
Saturday 7th February - Day 25 - At Sea This is the first of another four days at sea - during this period we are due to cross the international dateline, where we go to bed on Monday night but instead of waking up on a Tuesday morning we wake up on a ...
Gra's 60th Birthday!!!
Today is Gra's 60th Birthday - gosh I'm sleeping with an old aged pensioner!! Thanks for all your messages it has been great realising people do think of you at home even though we have been gone so long! Started the day by going to Church - which is ...
Bikes and Indians
Well another cloudy and windy day! What is it with us, the wind seems to be following us around the world! However, it is very warm, so I agreed to go with Graham and hire bikes for the day and 'do' the round the island trip. We actually had a ...