raro mountain safari tour

It was informative about the culture, history and geography of the island. The staff were friendly and had a good sense of humour.It was good value for money.The lunch provided was simple, fresh and plentiful and also very nice. (BBQ and Salads)A great way to travel to the high peaks of internal Rarotonga.

A great day out. Well worth the trip with friendly and funny drivers, each with a story to tell. Not just a beach tour, but a few wonderful inland trips to some very interesting sites and some wonderful back stories to be told. Bring your sense of humour, and a water bottle, and enjoy the day out.

We enjoyed this tour, the guides were interesting, informative and funny. Lunch was great too. Thanks to the guides for sharing their knowledge and history.

We loved this tour, it was a very interesting and informative tour, the guide was very knowledgeable and funny....this tour is a must.

We went on this tour last week and was suspicious when the knackered old jeep turned up with a driver who spoke very little English and understood less. We got into the jeep thinking we had been short changed on the first claim "professional, friendly, knowledgeable guides" quickly backed up by the driver clumsily pointing out trees in broken English! When one of the group asked him questions he just smiled and said Yes!We drove up to the hospital on a small hill and the jeep really struggled and groaned.Then when we started up the mountain track it struggled so badly that it eventually stalled. By now we were on a dirt track with a dangerously steep drop over one side. We started panicking and asking to get out, but the driver continued to try and restart the jeep, at which point it started falling backwards and gaining speed.The children were screaming and the adults shouting but the driver couldn't stop it.After some distance (approx 15meters) and with the cliff side dangerously close he managed to steer it into the bank, throwing us all into a heap - at which point it went up into the air and landed on the side.The driver jumped out and ran off! It later transpired he had gone to get help - but he didn't even check on us first!Everyone was bashed and bruised and one had a serious cut to her hand. I had hit my head on the metal bar and blacked out (I'm in my 50's!) but my husband managed to get me out.Not knowing what was happening but realising we were a long way from help, we started walking down the mountain track until I could call a local friend for help.She called the Safari office to be told there had NOT been an accident, we had just broken down and the manager had gone to check - and would not be told differently. Eventually we met the driver and soon after a mechanic arrived with another jeep, laughed and joked to the driver whilst leaving us stood huddled together with no help.The original driver got in the replacement jeep and signalled for us to get in and he'd take us to our hotels!! We had to demand to be taken to the hospital.No representative came to the hospital to support us or the injured driver - let alone take us home. They just left the driver to do that (we refused and our friend came for us - who had also called the police).The next day after giving a statement to the police a lady from the company came with the driver and apologised, but when I started to tell her we had been badly let down by the company during and after the accident, she was more offended and insisted she had been very upset by the news and had indeed called the driver "50 times that night" to check up on him and the poor owner was in NZ with his sick mother!I put the attached photo on facebook and had surprising responses, including one friend how said on her 'safari' the driver got out of the vehicle and punched a local in the face then explained it was because he had flipped him the bird!Seriously, don't take your life, worse yet, your children's lives in your hands with this bunch of cowboys! If you are considering it - take a look around the jeeps first! You'll make the right decision!