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Travel Blogs from Rarotonga
Cook Islands or: Kia Orana!
... imagine and I wish I could have made a video because I'm sure nobody will believe me, but it was so exhausting and I literally needed four limbs to climb up which made holding a camera impossible. Drowning in sweat (even in the shade of the trees it was >30) and struggling for breath we made it to the top and were rewarded with an exceptional view! You could see the ocean all around you and the other mountain tops, amazing! Going back down on the other side wasn't easier, ...
Südsee Teil III
... zu besorgen. Ohne Fahrzeug kann man sich auf Rarotonga nur schlecht bewegen, es sei denn, man wartet auf den Insel-Bus oder geht zu Fuss entlang der Hauptstrasse, was bei stechender Sonne und fehlenden Gehwegen wahrlich kein Vergnügen ist. Wie die meisten Touristen konnten wir uns nach einigem Hin und Her einen Roller ergattern. Der witzige Jüngling, der den wartenden Kunden die Motorbikes übergab, stellte kurzerhand fest, dass der für uns vorgesehene Roller gar ...
Who's Idea was this?!!
... climbing conditions so care needs to be taken when setting out on a walk" -- Guess we should have read this . . .
We caught the 9 o'clock Clockwise bus into town to start the "Across the Island Trek to the Needle".
By 10 we were in Avatiu and walking the 2.5km to the start of ...
A very small and charming island
... the island in the opposite direction and went off and explored some of the tsunami evacuation routes. This was interesting as all these roads lead inland towards the mountain. This is where the farmland is andthey grow taro, tomatoes, lettuce along with groves of mangos, bananas and cocoanut palms. Here we also saw goats, cows and pigs.
The soil is very black and the beach is a light coloured sand. There really isn't any beaches per say but people have ...