Cook Islands

Exciting, beautiful, and pristine, the Cook Islands have  always been a wonder. To many it is the land of unusual sights and exquisite beaches, pristine land with fantastic unique flora & fauna, calmness together with its beauty, its culture and its way of life, awaits your discovery. Others arrive here and undergo an experience, one that will etch a life-long impact and draw them back to its shores again and again. From the first Polynesian settlers to the it’s inhabitants   today, the co-ordination of universal history found here is an irreplaceable point of intersection. These islands are rich in wonders, and are endowed with beautiful landscapes, warm sandy beaches, cool lofty mountains with friendly people and their traditional life, art, folklore and fascinating life-style.

“Come to the Cooks for its people and its beauty”.

Our culture stems from the Polynesian arrival in the islands around 800AD. This was part of the great Polynesian migration. In the 11th century a famous chief named Toi built the first inland coral road in Rarotonga, called the Ara Metua. Nearly two centuries later the chiefs, Karika, from Samoa, and Tangiia Nui, from Tahiti, joined forces at sea to conquer the earlier inhabitants.

Although the Cook Islands  stand apart from any other destination in the world with it’s diversity of attractions, beautiful landscapes, welcoming faces, magnificent beaches and its people devotion to the land, the Cook Islands  are  filled with magnificent natural beauties, pristine spots, and  fantastic get-away  resorts as well as an incredible abundance of  flora & fauna  which dot the islands.

The people of the Cook Islands’ are truly proud of their island(s). Visitors soon realize that the Cooks is no longer waiting to be discovered, but instead needs to be” re-discovered”. The Cook Islands culture has changed a great deal from its first settler’s original arrival.  These islands of Cooks remain fiercely attractive to the visitor who comes here in search of fun, adventure, experience and isolation, their own perhaps. More significantly the journey to Vanuatu should be undertaken to seek an understanding of a way of life that is truly unique.