Luxury Rarotonga Accommodation! (Muri Beach & Night Markets) | Cook Islands Ep. 5 of 7

0:00 [Music] welcome back to our fifth episode in this cook island series after a few days exploring on aitataki we can fully understand why we've been told so many times it's a must visit but now it's time for some luxury in rarotonga let's go we picked up our rental car at the airport and made our way to tibakaroa villas award-winning luxury accommodation right on the beautiful beauty beach it doesn't get any more holiday vibes than this i love it here it's so nice auckland just feels like a mile away when you're at a beach location like

0:45 this yeah i reckon there's also food to be eaten fish to be seen and an amazing sunset to witness it's literally the perfect day in paradise [Music] hey this is a paradise within a paradise isn't it this is a gated paradise so you would have just walked through the gate at the front through the beautiful gardens and into villa number one you can see

1:33 already just from standing here just the pure uh the floor area it is they're massive huge there's actually only six villas here three of them are two bedroom and they're up the top and then three of them are one bedroom and they're down the bottom which walks straight out onto the pool yeah i always want to go straight for like oh it's good it's kind of blown out you can't see but we'll go out there in a minute because it's stunning out there all of the one bedrooms have a floor poster bed which is a nice touch and then also a courtyard a little baby courtyard out to the side there's kind of courtyards everywhere and then it opens up onto the ensuite there are two different options here again to shower inside or you can shower outside outside

2:18 they're also fully self-contained right down to the washing machine and the dryer and then literally everything you could possibly need in the kitchen which is really like a full self-contained villa rather than a hotel room kind of thing yeah um so this is the kitchen dane's very excited about the dishwasher the dishwasher is always a bonus not that we'll end up cooking much because you'll see in a minute when we go down onto the beach location hey right here on muddy beach is like everything you need so yeah we've got oven hob microwave dishwasher literally everything local music i don't know if you can do this one of the lagoon tours must be going out so they put on a little bit of a little bit of a show before they before they sort of go out and explore so you've got that right on your doorstep lounge yeah loads of living spaces so if we want to be inside we can be at the

3:04 lounge or i think we would choose this over anything yeah look at that we've got the space here that you can sit in and you've got the shade there's uh stand-up paddle boards there and then out there swimming pool people kayaking out onto the lagoon and you can see the break out there so that's all nice stable water great for snorkeling you can literally walk right out onto the beach right there there's the infinity swimming pool as well as a hot tub there's loads of different places that you can sit our favorite is this little balcony area yeah tucked up overlooking the beach but we don't just need to look at it or have to walk the long way around then there's a little exit that we can go down there's a pin code so that we can get in privately right down onto the beachfront and then you can walk down along in front of the other

3:50 resorts there's the sailing club it's right next door that's where we can go we're actually going to go for food there at some stage in the next couple of days and then the murray night market is just here as well [Music] [Music]

4:36 like i said paradise man look at that right there we've got this whole beach oh captain tunnel with the crew going out there welcome to our backyard what a location location location location location that's four that's a lot of locations yeah it's four because it's one up it is seriously though it is an amazing location everything is within walking distance yeah you can literally just wander down the beach you can hear the little oh happy hour if you don't know this area muri beach is probably one of the most popular for for tourists and for resorts and everything there's a couple of other places that we're going to scope out over the next few days there's some sea turtles coming up all sorts of really awesome stuff even

5:22 that island over there has got some stuff going on yeah there's a volleyball net a little surfboard i love it here it's so nice it's good auckland just feels like a mile away when you're at a beach location yeah i reckon the traffic here is very different 30 kilometers an hour driving dodging chickens and dogs [Music] so [Music]

6:07 [Music] oh that's the goods wow if i don't stop we're gonna be in there look at those colors wow so clear [Applause] so it's really not hard to find beaches like this everywhere everywhere you drive you can pretty much pull over look to depending on if you're going clockwise or anti-clockwise around the island look to the side you just wander straight on out and this is just all mint swimming weather out here i'm gonna go swimming yeah we're gonna do some swimming so we've got the car packed up we thought we'd come find a

6:53 little adventure eight snorkeling yeah blackrock blackrock we've heard of a place called blackrock which i don't think i've we've been to maybe you have in the past but sure i remember stopping there we hear that it's like the best kind of calm waters although it all kind of looks pretty calm but great for snorkeling [Music] [Music] [Applause] doesn't matter where you're going you're

7:40 not far away from dogs eh so this is blackrock which we were told is the spot to be but as you can tell it's it's rougher here so we're hoping nice sand through this bit we're hoping that in through there and around the the rocks or the coral or whatever that is there that that is the that's the best spot pretty hectic conditions but we found a delicious distraction so we heard about this place called be fruitful just opening up when we came over over two years ago a little food truck filled with the most delicious ice cream mine's gone i ate it already you kind of have to eat them quite quickly because they melt there or what mine's going they melt very fast but they're so good there's something special about standing

8:26 here i mean we could go and sit down on the beach but i've already been for a swim standing here looking out across the water dogs running by eating an ice cream good times good times for sure two ice creams and one local tip on where to snorkel we drove 20 minutes around to the other side of the island where it was more sheltered to replace snow on as fruits of rarotonga and hit the jackpot so

9:25 we're heading to the night markets we're actually going a little bit earlier than um we're picking a we're going real early it opens at five it's like quarter to five going just before opening because last time we went we were a little bit late and the selection was not so good so i think you want to get there early eh we're going from one extreme to another yeah for sure so do you remember the meal i'm sure you're the same there was one meal that i loved last time i think it was your meal and i regretted not getting it i was like oh i can't get pizza because you know we're in the island so um yeah it was a fish curry that dane got oh look at that how good does that look and i just remember there being rice on the bottom and like this amazing sauce so hopefully it's still there because

10:10 i'm keen to get the same thing yeah i think i'm gonna get that as well oh yeah we're early i like it that's brilliant one of like four people here so that looks like crepes crazy crepes yep oh bailey's banana and cream smoothie bowls some jewelry being set up it has been raining a little bit as you can probably see so i wonder if that's put a few people off there's i thought it's normally a bit more full than this yeah it is normally or it's just because we're super early super early it looks like all the cooking and all the foods happening over that side oh they do have the pizza still it's just on the other side okay what's this pork belly coconut chicken masala that sounds good smells good

10:55 smoothies chicken green curry what did we get coconut chicken curry none of that is a fish curry you think it's that one coco no that's coconut chicken curry let's keep walking what else we got island barbecue there's always an island barbecue noodle tent yum are we too early could we please get one of the seafood curries please of course yeah thank you give me five minutes okay cool eighteen dollars thank you so obviously all the prices you've seen have been uh new zealand dollars but what i really like we is the is the cook islands coins the five dollar cook island they fancy shapes i actually like having a couple is that a five isn't it yeah yeah that's cool is it worth telling the people that you

11:40 have to bring cash when you come here yeah sure you have to bring cash when you come here so we don't think this is the same one as last time but hey oh who's going to open it already i saw him cooking it look oh that looks great that is absolutely okay what have we got we've got prawns uh calamari fish mussels was there anything else it's all in a mild curry sauce with rice underneath it looks different than the one we had last time i don't think it's the same place though but it has been what two or three years it definitely tastes different but i think the um it's less of a curry and more of a seafood flavor it kind of tastes more like a like a seafood chowder but without the cream so a bit more of like a soupy style kind

12:26 of yeah i'm into chowder they i i think we haven't had one yet i love them you'll like this look nice it's like a seafood overload isn't it i bet you the cat would love that too don't jump up on me [Music] this is the perfect way to finish up the day i thought we'd come for a little sunset beach walk these fish have shown a particular interest in the old feet but look at that [Music] out outrageous we don't use a lot of saturation in our footage but if i cranked it up this

13:11 would just look ridiculous and i love that golden hour as well because then when you look in the other direction you get such a special sort of different light that almost looks like it's a different time of day anyway good night from us [Music] [Music]

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