Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
There are two ways to explore Rarotonga: you can either rent a scooter and drive the one road that goes around the island or you can hike over the mountains and straight through it. Each trip takes about a day. Being as we had more than 2 days, we did both.
Now the first thing you have to do to rent a scooter in Rarotonga is probably the best part of the whole experience. You have to get your Cook Islands’ driver’s license. Which of course involves a rigorous and lengthy 20 minute driver’s exam and a government fee. This very arduous test is broken up into 4 critical parts:
1) Drive down road (remember, they drive on the wrong side!!)
2) Go around roundabout (definitely the curveball for us Americans)
3) Come back down road (other side! Other side!)
4) Turn off road.
It amuses us that the people who are approved by the government to administer this exam are the scooter rental companies; who are coincidently the exact same people who have the most financial gain to realize upon the student passing the exam.
“But wait” you may protest. “I already have a driver’s license!” Continue reading “A License for Awesome!”
