The only complete guide to the Cook Islands - part 1 of 2

On the map (if you can find them at all!) they are just 15 tiny dots in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean...but together they're the Cook Islands, a unique paradise nation of warm and friendly people and stunning scenery.
Aitutaki - one of the islands - has been used as the location for the US TV series, 'Survivor'on CBS and the UK series, 'Shipwrecked' on Channel 4 TV.

You can find out more about all the Islands at http://www.cookislands.org.uk - the only independent, non-commercial guide on the net to all of the Cook Islands.




This is part one of a two part guide to all of the Cook Islands. And even if you can't visit them in person, hopefully this will give you an idea of why they're so special.




The film has been split into two parts because YouTube doesn't allow videos longer than 10 minutes. This part covers 8 of the 9 islands in the southern group. Part two will follow very soon. In the meantime, escape to a different world..or as one Australian author put it, to a place "where today is forever and tomorrow never comes.



(I am indebted to an amazing man called Gerald McCormack for the footage of the kopeka and the stills of some of islands' bird life. He's created the definitive database about the islands' flora and fauna at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/Default.asp which I can't recommend too highly. Additional stills are courtesy of Marcus Gleinig and Ewan Smith of Air Rarotonga and Graeme Whitfield of Summerfield Systems, Rarotonga)

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[andorionstar]

The best video so far about the Cook Islands.

Want to go there one day and see for myself.

[meitaki]

Meitaki maata (thank you very much)....I really hope you can get there one day. Video and photos really can't do the Islands justice.

[Cta2006]

I was so lucky to get to travel to the Cook islands back in 2006. A seriously long trip from my home in Norway, but so worth it. Such beautiful place and friendly people.

Hope to go back soon.

[DeadlyVeggie]

in my upcoming gap year i'm spending 4 months in this amazing place, i cant wait!!!!

[CamiloSanchez1979]

It's so amazingly unspoiled, I would love to visit

[blardave]

Im just gonna go there and never come back

[Souren17]

@Souren17 Rarotonga also

[Souren17]

Aitutaki: tribename in Survivor Cook Islands

[sarahubaldina]

i've been there!!!!in 1994,i can't forget the lovely people,the ospitality the love for their land...i want to send all my heart to aitutaki  too and they told to me:..back before we forget your face!!!

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all y love

sarah

[PHI682]

Lol yuh saiid Tiare wrong. ehh kuhs i see yuh at 5.30 lmbo yuhr small there now look at yuh. its more bettr there then in brissy

[PHI682]

omg that guuy has been at the airport since i was three and now im 16 wow. love him foah that hah>