This island is VERY different from Rarotonga and Aitutaki: here, we finally had that feeling of really being on a remote Pacific Island and not just another tourist destination. On a speck of land, 27 square kilometers in size, in the middle of the Pacific with 630 inhabitants, we are among the seven tourists presently on the island! According to our host, more than in the past few months which had been very quiet, with almost no tourists coming to Atiu.
After only two days, it came clear to us that Atiu was definitely THE highlight of the three islands we visited within the Cook Islands. It was here that the words “unspoiled nature” and “Travel Off The Beaten Track” took on a completely new meaning for us. True, it lacks the awesome sight of a lagoon like in Aitutaki that plays on the mythical “South Seas Feeling”.
But all this dwindled into insignificance after riding our scooter on dirt roads, overgrown with weed, surrounded by thick lush primary rainforest and still hearing the waves breaking on the reef. We could sense every second that we were in a very isolated and remote place.
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