Aitutaki - South Pacific Island 11
After spending some time in Rarotonga (blog coming soon...) we hopped on a plane heading for the island of Aitutaki. Still in the Cook Islands, this island was the promise of pure white sand beaches and deep turquoise sea in what is meant to be the most beautiful lagoon in the world.
Upon arrival we soon realised that Aitutaki was many many years behind Rarotonga. Being a small island we didn't expect too much, but due to the recent decline in tourism many of the already few restaurants and bars had shut down, leaving not much to do in the evenings except relax and sample the local beers in our hostel!
After a few days relaxing on the beaches we took a day out of our hectic schedule (!) to go on a lagoon cruise to the locally famous "One-foot Island" where you can get your passport stamped with a huge great foot at what is possibly the worlds smallest post-office!
Other than that we didn't do a lot except laze around on beaches so here's some happy snaps that we took...
Some snaps of mainland Aitutaki
Some snaps from our lagoon cruise and of One-foot Island
Upon arrival we soon realised that Aitutaki was many many years behind Rarotonga. Being a small island we didn't expect too much, but due to the recent decline in tourism many of the already few restaurants and bars had shut down, leaving not much to do in the evenings except relax and sample the local beers in our hostel!
After a few days relaxing on the beaches we took a day out of our hectic schedule (!) to go on a lagoon cruise to the locally famous "One-foot Island" where you can get your passport stamped with a huge great foot at what is possibly the worlds smallest post-office!
Other than that we didn't do a lot except laze around on beaches so here's some happy snaps that we took...
Some snaps of mainland Aitutaki
Some snaps from our lagoon cruise and of One-foot Island
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