This island has nice beaches, limestone caves, marae (temple) ruins and a good lagoon for shelling. It's relatively easy to get to: It's served daily by flights on Air Rarotonga. Even so, you'll ...

A foreign journey is full of surprises: different people with a new language, a new culture and new topography. And although they speak English in the Cook Islands, they make up for it by driving on ...

In small island states, conservation often hinges on daily vigilance rather than formal institutions, where routine tasks like watching harbors and checking traps determine whether endemic species ...

Residents of this "well-kept secret" of Polynesia continue to embrace many aspects of their traditional culture. As development increases upon Rarotonga, the country's main population center, local ...

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