Manihiki – the island of black pearls
The Cook Islands’ main source of income is tourism but at the moment our borders are closed and there have been no overseas tourists since March 2020.Tourism Cook Islands, Air ...
Pukapuka – the Cook’s most isolated island
The Cook Islands’ main source of income is tourism but at the moment our borders are closed and there have been no overseas tourists since March 2020.Tourism Cook Islands, Air ...
Aranui 5’s special journey to Pitcairn
Pitcairn. Home of the Bounty mutineers. And their descendants.A rocky speck in the great South Pacific ocean, it's thousands of kilometres from Chile to the east and New Zealand to ...
The Creative Centre – an unusual tourist activity
The Creative Centre One of the more unusual activities for tourists on Rarotonga is a visit to the Creative Centre. Our South Pacific paradise in the Cook Islands is known ...
The Aranui 5 cargo/passenger ship
In the nineteen-fifties the Chinese-Tahitian Wong family started a shipping company operating the Aranui, a freighter sailing to the islands of French Polynesia. Later the Aranui 1 was the first ...
Four star luxury in a South Pacific paradise
“Tahiti”. For westerners the name conjures up visions of swaying palm trees, golden sand, sparkling blue lagoons and colours as brilliant as those painted by Paul Gauguin. And at the ...
Six majestic Marquesas Islands – a different way to cruise
We are standing on a raised stone platform, once the home of a chief, looking down at a pit.“Some say it was used to keep prisoners for human sacrifice.” says ...
Moorea lagoonside rescue
In November last year (2017) we spent a few days on Moorea In a lagoonside bungalow at the Intercontinental Hotel. Beautiful. We were relaxing on the deck one sunny afternoon, ...