59. Rarotonga


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August 12th 2009
Published: February 28th 2010
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(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 Full Entry



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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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To the memory of a European "masacred by deluded natives"



26th April 2010

rarotonga
We WANT to go it looks amazing !
17th April 2011
Arai Te Tonga chief site

where is the marae ?
kia orana , i have lived in rarotonga for 14 years but never got to visit the marae , i am now living in new zealand and would like to know where the marae is situated ? thank you .
27th March 2013
Arai Te Tonga chief site

Response to your question
I am very sorry for the delay! Please see this link for good information. Best regards Nick. http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_12_1903/Volume_12,_No.4,_December_1903/Arai-te-tonga,_the_ancient_marae_at_Rarotonga,_by_S._Percy_Smith,_p_218-220/p1

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