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 Aitutaki is renowned for its extraordinary natural beauty
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