The Cook Islands

What can we say about The Cook! It is stunning!! We arrived with very bad weather and we thought: there goes our paradise vacation. After two days of orientating we decided to rent push bikes for a few days, the typical Dutch way to explore the island!!! This was fantastic, it gave us a true free feeling and we where very glad when it started to rain while riding our bikes, because the weather was simply too hot & humid.
After a couple of days the weather was turning better. We already decided to rent a car, not that the islands is so Big. It’s a half an hour drive around the island. In the evenings it was saver in a car to drive, then a pushbike without lights. Everywhere we looked we saw a Nissan convertible, a real Muppet car, and so we wanted to rent this one. It was a good choice!!

The locals where VERY friendly. When we where admiring a fruit tree in somebody’s garden and taking photos, the owner invited us to come in and started to tell some history about the tree and the island. The first impression of the Cook’s is that they look aggressive, because they are VERY big people with traditional tattoo’s and a rugby-look on their face….So we where a little bit afraid to ask some things in the first few days, but after 2 days we where laughing about our first impression!! We can say the Cook Islanders are the most Friendliest people we ever met!!! We love the Cook Islands!!

The nature is beautiful, the people are friendly, the food is Superb, and the sea and the beaches are amazing!! The blue waters with colorful fish swimming around, coconut trees everywhere and the freshest mangoes just picked from a tree aside the road (or you could do it yourself!!).

Because the weather wasn’t really good the first 6 days we decided not to go to Aitiutaki, what we regret afterwards…but hey, you can’t have it all right. We thought we would see it all in Tahiti….that’s a whole other story…

The last days on Rarotonga where amazing, real paradise, because the vibe was superb and we only lied on the beach the whole day, snorkeling, eating, just like a real vacation after a year work!! HAHAHA

Enjoy our photos…