The Good Life
A golden sunrise greets us as our plane descends on Rarotonga, the Cook Islands’ largest island. The long-extinct volcanic cone, with its steep lush green mountains, is surrounded by a lagoon with white sand beaches and turquoise waters. There are no high-rise hotels on the coastline, and I’ll later learn that structures aren’t allowed to be built higher than the coconut trees.
There’s one main road that circles the whole island. It’s only 32km long with a speed limit of 50km per hour, meaning it takes about 45 minutes to
