Our Stories

The Cook Islands is renowned for its idyllic holiday environment, friendly and relaxed beach resorts, delicious local cuisine, and vaka sailing; all aspects of the ...

On a Saturday evening in 1997, waves tall as coconut trees crashed over the sea- level atoll of Manihiki, stealing 19 lives, irreversibly changing hundreds ...

Russian-born Tatiana Burn is an exciting local business entrepreneur who lives life to the fullest in her adopted home of Rarotonga. Her busy lifestyle in ...

Why are black pearls so called? Because they grow in the black lipped oyster (pinctada margaritifera). When the oyster shell is ground and polished you ...

Australian-born Cook Islands businesswoman Julie Bateman came to the Cook Islands for a holiday thirty-five years ago when the islands were the best kept secret ...

Visitors to the Cook Islands will no doubt be greeted upon arrival with one of these lovely floral creations, called 'ei, which are typical to ...

Matthew Williams-Ellis (pictured below) is a freelance travel, documentary, property and landscape photographer. Based in London, Matthew enjoys exploring the world on assignments and photographing ...

Tokerau Jim is a spiritual and deeply religious Cook Islander whose family comes from the island of Manihiki, the heart of the Cook Islands pearl ...

Graham Matheson grew up in Cook Islands in the 1990s playing rugby and rugby league. He and his fellow players regularly sustained injuries that were ...

Long-time Cook Islands medical practitioner Dr Wolfgang Losacker is a specialist in tropical medicine, internal medicine and cardiology. He is a consultant at the Rarotonga ...