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Aitutaki Lagoon Tour We took a tour of the lagoon, on a glass-bottom boat. It was a very relaxing, enjoyable day. |
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Aitutaki Island Tour We rented bikes and took a tour of the island - well, at least the parts that weren't off-limits! |
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The beach on Aitutaki, and Matriki Huts The beach on Aitutaki is breathtaking. Well, it would have been if we'd had any sun. We stayed at Matriki Huts, a very, very basic accomodation directly on the beach. Every hotel on the island was full of the |
The following day, our last chance for sun in Aitutaki, didn’t pan out much better than the previous days, unfortunately. Gray and overcast. However, we were fortunate that the lagoon cruise we had arranged ( Glass Bottom Boat Cruise) turned out to be a private cruise around the lagoon: all other guests had cancelled ... (read more →)
The next day was our day to kayak on Ootu beach. The weather had other ideas however, and it rained almost all day. We sat and played Scrabble. Ian won.
The day wasn’t a total washout, however. For dinner, we went out for our best meal of the trip at Tupuna Café, which was ... (read more →)
Since every hotel was full of the crew for Survivor, we pretty much had the beach to ourselves. We toured the island by bicycle – and saw no other tourists. There aren’t many sights to see around the island, but it was a pleasant way to spend an overcast day.
We tried to eat at ... (read more →)
Our stay on Aitutaki was unfortunately not very well timed.A lot of the lagoon was closed down due to the filming of Survivor: Cook Islands. A couple of months before the trip I had spend several hours on the phone calling every hotel in Aitutaki desperately looking for any room, and we finally found ... (read more →)
