Glamping in the Cook Islands: Luxury camping with a tropical edge at Ikurangi Eco Retreat

By Craig Tansley
January 16 2016 - 12:15am
Ikurangi Eco Retreat's exclusive Ariki Safari Tent.
Ikurangi Eco Retreat's exclusive Ariki Safari Tent.
Ikurangi Eco Retreat in the Cook Islands.
Ikurangi Eco Retreat in the Cook Islands.
Yopen air ensuite bathroom at Ikurangi Eco Retreat.
Yopen air ensuite bathroom at Ikurangi Eco Retreat.
Yoga instructor at Ikurangi Eco Retreat.
Yoga instructor at Ikurangi Eco Retreat.

If you don't mind roosters in the night, or the smell of mangoes when you're on the can, or the Cook Islands environment minister tending to his pawpaw patch next door, then check yourself into Ikurangi Eco Retreat. You'll have to forgive the occasional wasp that floats in with all those butterflies, the odd drop of warm rain with the star-gazing at night from an open-air, claw-foot bath tub, and a compost dunny that uses banana leaves from the neighbour's plantation because there's not nearly enough sawdust on this minuscule outcrop of extinct volcano in the South Pacific.

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