Aitutaki. Cook Island. Polynesia. South Pacific Ocean. A tourist walks along the edge of the palm-fringed beach in One Foot Isla
Aitutaki. Cook Island. Polynesia. South Pacific Ocean. A tourist walks along the edge of the palm-fringed beach in One Foot Island. Stamp Your Passport: Visit Aitutaki’s One Foot Island, where you’ll enjoy the incredible blue lagoon and a mouth watering beach barbecue, as well as a chance to receive Aitutaki’s trademark One Foot passport With a vast, sparkling lagoon rivaling Bora Bora’s – but with a fraction of the visitors – Aitutaki just might be the world’s most beautifully-remote island. Just a 45-minute flight from the main island of Rarotonga, Aitutaki and its surrounding atolls served as the tropical backdrop for “Survivor: Cook Islands.” One of 22 islands in the Aitutaki atoll, One Foot Island (or Tapuaetai, “one footprint”) is both dreamily-exotic and nearly deserted. It’s the perfect place to laze on a powder-white beach or float in the knee-high lagoon. While it may look totally deserted, One Foot is home to one top attraction - a small hut containing one of the world’s most remote post offices. Don’t forget to bring your passport and you’ll depart paradise with a footprint-shaped passport stamp to remember it by. Atiu Island, also known as Enuamanu (‘land of the birds’) lies 187 kilometres north east of Rarotonga. The third-largest island in the Cooks is over eight million years old. It’s also an ecologist’s dream and a magnet for the adventurer. On the edge of the island’s flat-topped central plateau you’ll find Atiu Villas, the island’s most developed vacation spot. You’ll also find 28 untouched beaches that are almost unvisited – except by those seeking a beautiful, secluded spot. Beautiful Aitutaki. It’s believed that the islanders on Aitutaki are descended from Ru, a seafaring warrior who settled there with his four wives. Arriving during a full moon he was captivated by the reflections upon this vast tranquil lagoon and named his landing point O’otu, which means ‘full moon’. Today A
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