Aitutaki, Atiu, Mangaia Map 2019-2020

See & Do Aitutaki Day Tour Bishop’s Lagoon Cruises Black Pearl Charters Aitutaki Dive Aitutaki Wet and Wild Water Tours NEED TO STAY
CONNECTED
Eat & Drink T: 22 888 (Rarotonga) E: info@airraro.co.ck Discover the Aitutaki Lagoon, spot turtles, and Black Pearl Charters offer a range of personalised Enjoy the turtles, moray eels, and the thousands of ON YOUR VISIT?
W: airraro.com/en/tours/aitutaki-day-tour snorkel in the turquoise water. Visit Heaven Sand activities including game fishing, lagoon tours and fish living in our reefs. Discover scuba diving if you
Boat Shed Bar & Grill Bar; then cruise to the star attraction of the lagoon, spearfishing. They operate two boats: ‘The Black are a beginner, or try a PADI dive course if you are Wet and Wild offer on water experiences in the
Aitutaki Blue Lagoon Flyfish One Foot Island, to enjoy a BBQ lunch under our Pearl’ purposely set up for fishing, and ‘The White advanced. Located at the wharves, Dive Aitutaki lagoon, and on the ocean: boat charters, fishing
Located next to Popoara Ocean Hideaway Hut. There is plenty of time for relaxing, Pearl’, which is set up for cruising and snorkeling in offer scuba dive packages, and also hire masks and charters, kite boarding, water taxi, whale watching,
Breeze Villas, Boat Shed is a T: 836 1621 E: flyfish@aitutaki.net.ck swimming and soaking up the sun. the lagoon. Charters are available seven days a fins for snorkelers. snorkeling, SUP rentals, spear fishing, tube riding,
popular and well-established Fb: Aitutaki-Blue-Lagoon-Flyfish T: 31 009 E: info@bishopscruises.com week. W: blackpearlaitutaki.com T: 31 537/53919 E: bubblesbelow@aitutaki.net.ck wake boarding, waterskiing, sightseeing, island
eatery and bar. With chefs from W: bishopscruises.com T: 31125/52125 E: blackpearlaitutaki@outlook.com W: diveaitutaki.com hopping, and accommodation with holiday
varied backgrounds, the menu Bonefish E2’s Way packages for kite boarders and fly fisherman.
offers something for every taste The Vaka Cruise Punarei Cultural Tours Sailing Aitutaki T: 31 651 E: wetnwild@oyster.net.ck
including Ika Mata, sushi and T: 31 686 E: fishing@e2sway.com W: wetnwild-aitutaki.com
sashimi, and nasi goreng. Nautical Fb: Bonefish-E2s-Way T: 53 294 E: bookings@thevakacruise.com T: 31 757/50 877 T: 56 200 E: pacific.pearl@gmail.com
memorabilia features around the W: thevakacruise.com E: punareitour@gmail.com W: sailingaitutaki.com
restaurant and bar. Cook Islands Tourism
T: 31 479 E: fishing@popoara.co.ck Information Office
W: popoaraoceanbreeze.com
Arutanga T: 31 767 W: cookislands.travel
Black Rock Café & Bar
Kia Orana Cruise
T: 31 720
W: pacificresort.com/aitutaki T: 31 442 E: bookings@kiaoranacruise.com
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Blue Lagoon Restaurant
& Bar Aitutaki Marine KEY LEGEND
Research Centre
Located on the southern tip of Ranginui’s Accomodation Petrol
Aitutaki on the white sands of Sunset
O’otu Point overlooking the Bungalows Place of interest Swimming
lagoon, the Blue Lagoon
Restaurant & Bar at Aitutaki Golf Club Church Snorkeling
Village is open for breakfast, lunch Spiders
and dinner, seven days a week. Seaside Lodges Petrol Station Hospital WiFi Hotspot
Tuesday is Aitutaki Island Feast Black Pearl
and Cultural Show night. Aitutaki Escape Charters Airport Terminal Some features may not be exactly located. Please ask locally before undertaking
T: 31 852 W: aitutakivillage.com hiking, snorkelling, swimming or water sports outside of recommended areas.
E: reservations@aitutakivillage.com Aretai Beach Villas
Puffy’s Beach Bar & Takeaway Maungapu
Flying Boat Beach Bar 124m
& Grill Paradise Cove
Vaiorea Beach House Inano Beach Popoara Ocean We have dozens of Bluezone WiFi
T: 31 200 Bungalows Breeze Villas Hotspots in Aitutaki. Scan the QR
W: aitutakilagoonresort.com Amuri Sands Code below to see get a Google Map
Etu Moana Beach Villas Koru Cafe Boatshed Bar & Grill with Aitutaki WiFi locations.
Koru Café Tauono’s Garden Café Popoara Rentals
Matriki Beach Huts OOTU BEACH Also keep an eye out for our
T: 31 110 E: seeyou@korucafe.biz Akitua WiFi icon on the maps.
W: korucafe.biz Tamanu Beach Resort Aitutaki Village &
Restaurant and Bar Blue Lagoon Restaurant Aitutaki Lagoon
Rapae Bay Restaurant Private Island Resort
Vaikoa Units & Bar
T: 31 720 Ranginui’s Retreat
W: pacificresort.com/aitutaki Pacific Resort Air Rarotonga Rino’s VAI PEKA Wet & Wild Boat Charters
Aitutaki Apartments
Tamanu Beachfront & Kiteboarding
Restaurant WaterTanks

Tamanu offers diners from all over Sunny Beach Agent Piraki lookout
the island a genuine Pacific Island Lodge Aquila Store WaterTank
dining experience: tasty cuisine, a ATM
beachfront view with sunsets, a Rino’s Beach AMURI
taste of local culture, and Cook Bungalows
Islands hospitality. Open seven days & Rentals Aquila Rentals Image courtesy of Owen Craig and Cook Islands Tourism.
a week for breakfast, lunch and
dinner, on Thursday evenings enjoy FREE CALL 123 P.O.Box 106, Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
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T: 31 810 W: tamanubeach.com Amuri Community Hall
Angarei
Shopping Paparei Guesthouse Amuri
Bungalows Pool Villa

UREIA Baxters

Gamefish Maina Aitutaki Punarei Waterworld BLACK ROCK
Club Superstore Cultural Tour & R APAE BAY
ARUTANGA
Wharves Ee The ultimate daily dining choice
Police Station Neibaa’s Mangere on spectacular Aitutaki
TNM Store Bishops Store Aitutaki Nui
Dive Aitutaki Post Cruises Papau
ATM Office Araura T&S ArtworX AITUTAKI LAGOON
(Bubbles Below) School

REUREU HOSPITAL Power Station VAIPAE Vaipae Akitua
SportsField Angarei
Aitutaki Ee
Adventures Wharf Aitutaki
Mangere

Reef Motel Papau

Wharf NIKAUPARA WRECK OF Tavaerua Iti
ALEXANDER Tavaerua Nui

Akaiami

TAUTU Muritapua
Maina Rapota Moturakau

Tekopua
Tapuaetai

Motukitiu

Bonefish E2’s Way

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Front cover: Overlooking One Foot Island: Marae Tavaerua Iti
Photographer, Alisha Street@My_Rarotonga Te Koutu Pt Tavaerua Nui

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Sipping cool, refreshing cocktails while dining beachside is
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wife team (Turua & Steph) who PO Box 30, Avarua, Rarotonga At Pacific Resort Aitutaki Nui’s renowned Black Rock you can
make handcrafted and custom Popoara Rentals, Explore the lagoon Explore the roads & tracks Go to church T: +682 20 222 experience all this and more. Alternatively, as the sun sets on
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ukuleles and ukarere; and Steph southeastern side of world, Aitutaki’s lagoon is a wonderful playground. tracks are only accessible by four-wheel drive, scooter Christianity and its CICC church is the country’s oldest. W: enjoycookislands.com Rapae Bay; the 5 star resort’s fine dining restaurant overlooking
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and black pearl jewellery. Visit Boat Shed Restaurant explore and play. Try kiteboarding; wakeboarding, - Mangapu is 124 metres. You can drive or ride most of Publisher: Alastair Blount specialties, Black Rock and Rapae Bay are perfect for those
their workshop and retail shop in & Bar and Popoara Ocean Breeze Villas, offer well- fishing or hanging beside it in a hammock. Stop off at a the way up. Play a round of golf – you can hire clubs. Design & Print: Ovato New Zealand looking to relax, unwind and dine while vacationing on Aitutaki.
Vaipae. maintained, small four-door hatchbacks, 15-seater vans motu and play Robinson Crusoe for a day.
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WHAT TO DO ON ATIU? TANGAURORO BEACH SEE THE FOSSIL CORAL FREE

EXPLORE THE CAVES BIRD WATCH Rated by Lonely Planet 120,000 years old fossil Your hosts Roger and Kura will make your stay an exciting adventure AITUTAKI MAP
The rare Kopeka bird lives Conservationists have as one of the best beaches coral reef sculptured Phone: (682) 33 777 | Email: roger@atiuvillas.com
deep within the caverns transferred the rare in the Pacific. by the weather. Includes maps of Atiu & Mangaia
of Anatakitaki Cave; Kakerori (Rarotonga Onn--lliinneebbooookkinignsgastawt ww.wa.taiutivuilvlailsla.cso.cmom- F-rFereeeemeamila&ilin&teinrntetrnet
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the origins of the human (Rimatara Lorikeet) to
bones in the Rimarau Atiu and both appear ATIU FACTS
Burial Cave. to be breeding successfully.
The main road on the
Konakonako Landing Totiko Landing western side of Atiu
leads through rainforest
Airport that grows on the
makatea. There are
Raka’s Burial Cave Pari Aniu proposalsto put most
Whistling Holes of this area asideas a
nature reserve.
Taunganui THE KURA
Harbour The people of Rimatara in
French Polynesia gifted 27
Wreck of Taparere Atiu TV Tarapaku Landing of these brightly coloured
SV Edna Lodge Bluesky + Post Office lorikeets to Atiu in 2007.It
was a conservation projectto establish a reserve population of the Kura as they are
Bakery Tepoonui known on Atiu.The Kura had previously lived in the Southern Cook Islands but was
Tumunu hunted for its striking red feathers and was last seen here around 200 years ago.
Oravaru Capt. Cook TheThree Grottos Atiu is becoming well knownfor its populations of rare birds.
Landing landed MAPUMAI
Orongo MANGAIA
3 April 1777 Marae
Mangaia is the second largest island of the Cooks and with a land area of 52 square kilometres,
TEENUI TENGATANGI it isn’t much smaller than Rarotonga. But its population is much smaller - around 500 people.
It is 176 kms (109 miles) southeast of Rarotonga and being further south it has a slightly cooler
HOSPITAL Kopeka Anatakitaki climate all year round.
Lodge (Cave of the Kopeka) The topography of Mangaia is similar to that of Atiu, but on a much larger scale. From a shallow
NGATIARUA lagoon inside the surrounding reef, makatea (fossilised coral) rises in steep bluffs and cliffs and
AREORA Kia Orana Atiu Homestay Oneroa drops just as dramatically into the interior, forming cliffs of up to 100 metres (328 ft).
Bungalows Beach
Terangi-Nui The makatea contains many caves. The largest and most spectacular of these is Teruarere,
Taungaroro Cafe Aretou Tumunu which forms a seemingly endless series of interconnected caves.
Beach
Tumai Beach Atiu Villas
&Kuras Kitchen

KEY LEGEND Lake
Teroto
Accomodation
Place of interest Vai Piake Rima Rau Burial Cave Marae
Church Landing
Hospital Takauroa Landing
Walking track Coral Garden
Road (not recommended) Matai Landing
Swamp area
COOK ISLANDS

Some features may not be exactly located. Please ask locally before undertaking hiking,
snorkelling, swimming or water sports outside of recommended areas.

TeTau

Atuokoro Landing Ara’oa Beach
Airport

INLAND TRACK Karanga Nui Beach
TO TAVENGA
Iotepui Battlefield
Te ruaere Caves

Mangaia Villas
Avarua Landing

Ōrongo Power Station Ivirua
School
Vai Anga
Petrol Station
Air Rarotonga
Babe’s Store Vaitotara School

Oneroa Palace Mangaia Auraka Bakery RANGIMOTIA IviruaTaro Ara Moana
Hospital Lodge (Highest point on the Island) Gardens Bungalows
Bluesky + Tãpãti Battlefield
Post Office KeiaTaro Gardens

TV Station Babe’s
Public Hotel

Card Phone

Rock Pools Tua ati

Makatea Cliff
Scenic Viewpoint

(looking inland)

LakeTiriara AnaoTautua Caves
Scenic Recreation & Battlefield

Activitries

Tuatini Caves

Tukoropa Tamarua