Backpacking in the Pacific

After leaving our bags in our room we went out onto the hostel terrace overlooking the beautiful Muri beach and the sheltered lagoon. When people said hi and asked how we were doing it felt kind of strange to answer "good, we just cancelled our wedding".

We have stayed at quite a few hostels by now, but never have we seen a hostel with a location as good as Vera's backpackers. It is situated right on Rarotonga's best beach between a number of luxury resorts.

Our old resort was ten times the price of our hostel, but the atmosphere in the hostel was ten times better than at the resort. Backpacking sometimes means that you have to live quite rough. This is not the case when you find a gem like this.