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The Cook Islands

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Reasons To
Visit The Cook Islands

  • Cook Islands Christian Church

    The CICC is vitally important to most islanders for whom it has a profound influence on everything they do every day. Visitors are most welcome to attend a church service which take place on Sunday mornings and evenings and several mornings during the week. The service is in Maori but foreign visitors are made to feel very welcome as long as they dress smartly in long dresses and trousers.

    Cook Islands Christian Church

  • Culture

    Cook Islanders consider themselves true Polynesians and are very proud of their Maori and Maohi heritage. However, equal importance needs to be given to the influence of Christian missionaries on this society. Today, an unusual yet harmonious blend of Christianity and ancient pagan traditions exists in the Cooks and is a wonderful example of how two vastly different beliefs can coexist peacefully.

    Culture

  • December Parades

    The stunning flora of the Cooks is celebrated in all its glory in December. Parades of beautifully decorated floats cram the streeets, and there are prizes for the most impressively decorated government buildings.

    December Parades

  • Diving

    The best dive sites in this tropical paradise are found off the islands of Rarotonga and Aitutaki with plenty of scuba diving and snorkelling opportunities available both inside and outside the reef. Surrounded by beautiful lagoons, both Rarotonga and Aitutaki have a wealth of marine life to explore.

    Diving

  • Lagoon cruises

    Cruises around Aitutaki and Rarotonga are the perfect way to spend a day as you explore and discover the many wonders that are found in the lagoons here. Most cruise operators usually include a swim, a barbecue lunch, a beach stroll and a snorkelling trip as part of your lagoon cruise, so that you take in the best that these islands have to offer.

    Lagoon cruises

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Visit Aitutaki, The Cook Islands

This beautiful atoll island, first settled by Melanesian sailors around 800BC, is a gently sloping island at the heart of a glorious ring of coral, enclosing a turquoise lagoon five times the island’s land size, fringed by a low-lying ribbon of islets.

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Aitutaki

The Cook Islands

This beautiful atoll island, first settled by Melanesian sailors around 800BC, is a gently sloping island at the heart of a glorious ring of coral, enclosing a turquoise lagoon five times the island’s land size, fringed by a low-lying ribbon of islets.

Though just 200 kilometres to the north of Rarotonga this low, coral island is completely different in feel, with cruises, sailing and snorkelling expeditions focused on the sheltered lagoon.

Bone-fishing is a special attraction, and there is fantastic diving on the sheer drop-offs of its outer reefs. For most visitors, it is the pristine, white-sand beaches that are the major draw, offering a wonderful opportunity to relax in a land where time has little meaning.

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