After time seemed to come to a near standstill on Aitutaki, I couldn't wait to get back to Raro, mainly since it was just about 40hours there before I'd fly on to my next destination.I arrived back at my hostel and caught up with the guys there. In a spur of the moment decision, myself and Jez took his Jeep to the North side of the island to meet some others for the cross island walk. After trekking around the world, I wasn't expecting much of this walk - but it turned out to be really good fun and pretty challenging.
The trek took us first through some grassy hills onto the hillside which would take us all the way to the 'Needle' - a large spire of rock - one of Rarotongas tallest land features. Once we reached the base of the Needle, myself and Jez ventured on further up the rock - at one point (in the picture) only a chain was there to save you from falling many metres to a probable certain death - I was glad to avoid that anyway.
The route South was easy enough to follow - since a stream meanders nearly the whole way back, though you have to cross it quite a few times and the rocks made for a few slip ups and wet feet.As we finally got to the South Coast, the heavens opened and we got absoutely saturated. We managed to hitch hike our way back to town before getting ourselves dried off and ready for an evening on the town.
A bunch of us met up at the Banana Bar - which up until now was something I thought that existed only in Amsterdam - luckily the only
surprises we'd recieve here was a free Screwdriver - the cocktail variety. We took a trip back thru Trader Jacks and onto the Whatever bar again before the town turned off it's lights at midnight.The rain was again pouring down in paradise as I got up - so with a day getting my blog up to date and my bags packed for my next trip, I was ready and getting pretty excited to return to a normal - more frantic pace of life, which I have to say, I prefer infinitely to Island life such as this - I'd go cookin' crazy with another week here!
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Hey Pucas.... glad you had fun in the Cooks... forgot to tell you that Adam was there at the same time as you! Fiji was awesome too - you should obviously have come with us!!! In Santiago now, jetlagged right now but all quite exciting... hope you're having fun... miss you, Flee xx
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