AITUTAKI, COOK ISLANDS – The South Pacific has long been a place where people go to lose themselves. And few places are as remote as the Cook Islands.The Cooks consist of 15 small islands in an area ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Cook Islands more than live up to the South Pacific dream. No wonder Captain Bligh's men took the mutinous decision to stay. On ...

Aitutaki is the paradise you always dreamed but never quite believed could exist: uncrowded, inexpensive, safe and friendly, and stunningly gorgeous around, in and under the ocean You can save this ...

This tiny spot in the South Pacific was one of the last places William Bligh, captain of the H.M.S. Bounty, visited before the infamous 1789 mutiny. Bligh, set adrift along with 18 members of his crew ...

Aitutaki may be just 17 square kilometres in size (with a high point barely 100 metres above sea level), but its lagoon is so big (at 74 square kilometres) that the largest island of the Cook Islands, ...

Aitutaki: the most precious of jewels in the crown of the Cook Islands. Few destinations offer the bewitching spectacle that Aitutaki does on final approach, on a 45 minute flight from Rarotonga. Even ...

I KEPT THE QUEEN waiting. Thunderstorms had delayed my flight. By the time the plane landed, Cook Islands Queen Manarangi Tutai had been waiting at the airport for three hours. Despite the imposition, ...

Hidden in plain sight awaits a tropical paradise only a stone's throw away from Australia - and yet few know it exists. Rarotonga - the largest of the Cook Islands - has breathtaking beaches, ...