With a surface of 67 square km Rarotonga is already a smallish island, but Aitutaki is even more of a toy island: over 18 km2, in an oblong 2 x 9 km shape. On the east and south sides, the island is surrounded by a lagoon of the brightest shade of turqoise that you´ve ever […]
There is no direct flight from Samoa to the Cook Islands. Well, not anymore there isn’t.. The only option is to go via Auckland, New Zealand. Hmmm.. Sounds like a huge detour. And it is. Apart from the extra stop over, you also get to cross the international dateline twice. To make things even more […]
After a week on Upolu we took the ferry to Savaii, the other large island in Samoa – after Hawaii and New Zealand, the largest island in Polynesia, even. Not that that means a lot, because you can still circle it in three hours, even respecting the local speed limit of 56 km/hour. (The word […]
Bounty Island is part of the Mamanuca group of islands and it is the last island we visited in Fiji. Its look and feel and its guests are somewhere in between of both of the Yasawa islands we had visited before: a lot of backpackers but also some families, a beach bungalow not quite as […]
