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Respect and etiquette in the Cook Islands

📍 Aitutaki, Cook Islands
Where
All islands
Opening hours
Always
Typical cost
Free

Cook Islanders are famously welcoming and will forgive a great deal. These are simply the things worth knowing.

Dress

Swimwear at the beach and in the water. Cover up to walk into a shop, a village or anywhere near a church. Topless sunbathing is not acceptable.

Sunday

Quieter and more observed than most visitors expect. Noise, loud activity and visible commerce near a church during service are noticed.

Sacred sites

Marae and burial grounds are tapu. Do not climb on stones, remove anything, or use them as a backdrop.

Land and graves

Family graves are often in front gardens. That land is private and personal — do not wander onto it for a photograph.

Photographs of people

Ask. It is a small place and people are not scenery.

💡 Local tip
Cover up away from the beach. Swimwear is for the water; walking into a shop or a village in it reads as disrespectful, even where nobody says anything.
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