Cookin' up a storm...
2005-11-18, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. By: isisohisis

We got a stopover in Tahiti for a few hours, they gave us flowers to wear in our hair as we stepped off the plane and we could have stayed there longer! The Cook Island of Raratonga is where we sta...

not hungover'd!
2005-01-05, Cook Islands, Cook Islands. By: the_katie

So after last night's fun and sleeping in like woah today, someone woke me up with "Hey the bus is downstairs and leaving in 5 min". So I jolted out of bed and threw on some clothes and hopped on the ...

Paradise on Earth
2005-03-11, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. By: emmaken05

Hi all, I hope you are all doing well. We are in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. It is absolutely amazing. We have stayed in a cool hostel and met the best bunch of people. The island itself it s...

White sandy beaches here we come!
2004-07-11, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. By: frogtravel

Departed Los Angeles Sunday 11th July at 0600 for a 12 hour pacific flight with Air New Zealand, destination Rarotonga. Rarotonga is the main island of the Cook Islands archipelago. The flight arriv...

cooks part 2
2004-10-18, Cook Islands, Cook Islands. By: erikd

We arrived in Aitutaki late that sunday night and just checked into Paradise Cove, a little place on the beach with rooms in a house, also have bungalows. We just took a room in the house cause it was...

cook islands
2004-10-07, Cook Islands, Cook Islands. By: erikd

Second stop, the cook islands, we arrived on sept.23/2004 at 6:00am after a 2 hour flight from tahiti. When we got off the plane the weather didn't look that great, it was cold and starting to rain, s...

Humid, Sunny, Sweet
2004-02-13, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. By: gareth

Kia Orana What a change, from Snow to Sand in one easy week. It’s so hot here, and humid. Our fragile Canada whitened bodies aren’t taking it well. We landed here at 5:30 in the morning, 5 hours l...

Paw Paw Trees and Sunlit Seas (Part 3)
2004-02-10, Aitutaki, Cook Islands. By: Alex_RTW

The first European to set sight on Aitutaki was Captain Bligh, of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' fame. The Bounty and her crew sailed past the islands in the late 18th Century, just two weeks before the mutin...

Paw Paw Trees and Turquise Seas (Part II)
2004-01-30, Atiu, Cook Islands. By: Alex_RTW

On the morning we left for Atiu we arrived at Rarotonga airport bright and early to board our tiny Air Rarotonga plane. There were only three seats across, enough room for about 18 passengers. We sat ...

Paw Paw Trees and Turquoise Seas - Part One
2004-01-16, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. By: Alex_RTW

The day before we left for the Cook Islands was the longest day of the trip so far, or at least that's the way it seemed. Our plane from Bora Bora landed back at Papeete around lunchtime, giving us ar...

Scorbies expedition - part 9
2003-03-26, Cook Islands, Cook Islands. By: sylvie

What is paradise? A beautiful beach, white sand, incredible sunsets, palmtrees, little hut overlooking the beach, blue lagoons? BUT most of all SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...

You can have too much of a good thing
2002-03-19, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. By: nsuffield

This was really weird, we left Fiji on March 20th and got to Cook Island on March 19th. We had crossed the dateline and I felt like groundhog day. This really confused us, apart from that it messed up...