welcome at Rarotonga airport

One Foot on the island

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April 18th 2007
Flying from Fiji to the Cooks is only a straight easterly flight of 3 hours. We stayed for a few hours on Rarotonga the main cook island and then set off to discover Aitutaki, an atoll in the cook island group. life in the cooks was even more relaxed than in Fiji, everyone wearing flowers in their hair and being really smiley. But the cooks were also very much like a tropical New Zealand. The mai ... read more

Oceania » Cook Islands » Aitutaki

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Named after Captain COOK, who sighted them in 1770, the islands became a British protectorate in 1888. By 1900, administrative control was transferred to New Zealand; in 1965 residents chose self-government in free association with New Zealand. The e... ... read more