What time is it there?!

Public transport here is a bit more advance than Tahiti. The buses look quite new, and there is even a timetable. Well actually there are two routes, clockwise and anti-clockwise, so it isn’t that tricky to work out.

Most of the tourists, particularly the backpackers, seemed to have hired scooters. The roads are nowhere near as busy as Tahiti, so being on a scooter is probably not that dangerous, however due to the inconsistent weather (ie. sudden downpours with no notice) we opted for a car.

Although there are many hire car operators on Rarotonga don’t expect anything close to a new vehicle. Budget seem to have quite new cars, but we used the local Avis franchise and our car had quite a large scrape down the side in addition to an apparently expired MOT. We didn’t have any problems with it though and it kept us dry on numerous occasions. We managed to clock up 280kms in 4 days which isn’t bad going for such a small place and meant that we circumnavigated it about 10 times!!!