Welcome to Rarotonga!

A great welcome at the airport from Jake Numanga Senior, who has apparently been doing this for 20 years and has an MBE for services to tourism.

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59. Rarotonga

August 12th 2009
(N) August got off to a great start for us; my team at work won a competition that took us on holiday for a week to the Pacific island of Rarotonga! It’s probably the best prize I ever won. The brochures describe Rarotonga as “a perfect circle of rock, whose centre is a volcanic peak draped in dense green jungle, which runs down to a beach of white sand lapped by blue sea”. Such is the po ... read more

Oceania » Cook Islands » Rarotonga

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

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