A COOK ISLAND TOUR.. ..with a guide called hopeless; Sara Wheeler explores the islands where hospitality is as legendary as its people's names.

The Mail on Sunday (London, England) | February 11, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: SARA WHEELER

When producers of the hit reality-TV series Shipwrecked set out to find an unspoiled paradise on which to maroon 16 hapless contestants, they chose, from a cast of thousands, a coral atoll off one of the Cook Islands.

Once deposited on Moturakau, the team battled it out for the [pounds sterling]1million prize in the fabled tranquillity of the South Pacific, though they discovered little to eat except coconuts and hermit crabs.

South of Tahiti and west of Fiji, the 15 islands that make up the Cooks occupy a land mass little ...

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