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French Polynesia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from French Polynesia
Motu Nao Nao
This is a top pick! Miles travelled - 10nm from Ile Taoru to Motu Nao Nao No such thing again as a sleep in. Up at 6.30am and started a loaf of bread before setting off down the east coast to Motu Nao Nao. We thought of visiting here for the day and returning to Faaroa Bay. ...
Nao Nao to Faaroa Bay
This is a top pick! Miles travelled - 11nm from Motu Nao Nao to Faaroa Bay A sad morning as we had to depart this most beautiful anchorage. Had breaky and fed toady – the toadfish. We left early as we wanted to get to Faaroa Bay and explore the river Aoppomau. The ...
Back to loving the land...
This is a top pick! Miles Travelled - 4nm from Faaroa Bay to Ile Taoru to Uturoa Marina Our last morning and we had to get the boat back by 9am. Dale dropped the mooring at 5.30am much to my disgust so we had to stop at Ile Taoru so I could make breakfast, clean the boat ...
A little piece of heaven
This is a top pick! ... well, serves me right for constantly nodding off during those French classes I had years ago (by the way, everything in French Polynesia is in French; you're lucky if you manage to find a local who speaks decent English). On Monday, we set off after ...
Visiting the first diving site
This is a top pick! ... round island road, giving people a fair bit of walking to go for a dive. However his prices were very typically French Polynesian, i.e. astronomical. Saw turtles and reef sharks twice on first dive. Kingfish, Lemon shark, more turtles, plethora of the ...
Paradise
Rangiroa is the type of place people think of when they think of paradise—white beaches, palm trees, clear water that goes from turquoise to pale green to indigo. Every time we rowed to shore we saw rays and coral fish scattering under the dinghy. ...
Return to Raiatea
... and his attendant dinghy Penfold (as christened by us) was an excellent yacht and we were very sorry to step ashore. French Polynesia is a fantastic place, very expensive but the combination of Polynesian culture and French cuisine is hard to ...
Paradise, but at a price. And what a price...
First of all, Moorea is as close to my perception of paradise as I´ve ever encountered. It really is an incredibly beautiful place, with turquoise waters the likes of which I´ve never seen - except in brochures - and stunning mountains in the interior. ...
Going to the islands
... bungalows on the water (600euros the night). Saw a small island entirely owned by a Corsican familly. Past under the longest bridge in polynesia (100m) and saw a giant, sacred, dick. LOL. When the guide showed it to us from afar, one of the french dudes ...
Tahiti
Today is October 13th...again. I flew out of Auckland on October 14 but crossed the international dateline and went back a day in time. So I´m living the 13th over again! Anyway, I´m in Papeete, Tahiti. I´m only here for about 36 hours as a ...
on my way soon.........
2weeks from today, i'll be on my way to London, i hope to see a lot of you in my short ...
Raiatea
Back in Raiatea, on our beautiful campsite we decided to enjoy what we have, because you never know what you get next... In the morning Maria got a drive to the Islands centre, from Moana, and explored the markets and the town. although he said ...
"So, Chris.... have you been to Tahiti?"
I thought about writing about the trials and tribulations of our flight to Tahiti, but why bother? It got so much better. Let's just say that 8 1/2 hours of the person in front of you lying in your lap, too much wine and vodka (and turbulence- get my ...
And So I Go Part 1
This is a story by a Maori writer in New Zealand that we read in World Lit. I thought it spoke well to what I was doing. Spoiler: I cried, consider yourself warned! :) And So I Go Patricia Grace Our son, brother, grandchild, you say you are going ...
Passaging the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia
... , limes, pawpaw, pomegranate etc. Fantastic. And in our next instalment you will find us in the Tuamotus - still part of French Polynesia but quite a change from where we've been. They are coral reef islands that are sometimes barely above sea level and ...
polynesian paradise
... I'd become sunburnt. D'oh! I stopped at a little netcafe with dial-up to sent out an e-mail and discovered how wacky the French keyboard layout is. ___ My second day on the island, I went out kayaking. Got to the picture postcard point looking back at the ...
On Honeymoon Island!
... a long chat with the manager and he told us how the Yacht club was the 'retreat' destination for the yachts sailing through Polynesia. After having sailed for a long time it would be the first western place for them to wash, go grocery shopping, do ...
Back in Tahiti
Back in tahiti. Julien had organised to take me to Morea or go around Tahiti. We woke up later than planned - around 9am and then took nearly an hour to decide where we wanted to go. Finally we decided to go around Tahiti. Took the car and left ...
Tahiti
... returned and I was melting, so we decided to go back to the hotel. We went via the supermarket, which was a Carrefour, being a French island. It was exactly like walking into a Carrefour in France and, after I had managed to prise Richard from the cheese ...
A day in Raietea
Just starting to get the idea of doing this blog thing...thanks to those of you have replied...I have no way of knowing who gets what... Well a very short trip to Raiatea...117 miles. Toured around the town ( took about 10 min.) Then we went on a tour ...
Reflections at Papeete Airport
We have to check out at 10am, but our flight is at 2:30am tomorrow. With little else to do, we jump on the 9:30 bus and make it over to the main island around 11:30. We wander around a bit to burn time, grab some food, and mail my postcards. By the time ...
Moorea - The most jagged spectacular mountains!
... , producing the most spectacular sunset yet on our trip. It's actually hard for me to believe I'm finally in French Polynesia - a dream since childhood. The sunset brings on views of endless jagged mountain ridges up the coastline, coconut ...
Krotka przygoda z wyspami polinezyjskimi
No w koncu udalo mi sie opuscic NZ. Na pokladzie samolotu Air Tahiti chyba po raz pierwszy podczas moich wszystkich przelotow dostalem pelny obiad tzn. entree (salatka z anansa, ogorka i jeszcze jakis warzyw), pozniej obiad czyli cos a'la gulasz z owcy z ...
The Most relaxing few days of our lifes
Oh we have been so busy lately we hired a small canoe to go all around Bora Bora. We all trailed off and found on the beach ten canoes we then saw a small stall with a older man who was having a nap we unfortunately had to wake him up. He was a ...
Die Tauchlegende Rangiroa
Unseren zweiten Stopp in den Tuamotus legen wir in Rangiroa ein, dem groessten Atoll der Gruppe. Es ist so gross, dass man an der einen Seite stehend kein Land auf der anderen Seite der Lagune erkennen kann. Der Hauptort des Atolls hat leider durch ...
Tauchen im Garuae Pass von Fakarava
Auch Fakarava ist vor allem ein Reiseziel fuer Taucher, so dass auch wir uns hier noch einmal ganz der Unterwasserwelt widmen. Zuerst aber bauen wir mal wieder unser Zelt in einer schoenen kleinen Familienpension auf. Hier ist einiges los, so dass wir ...
Tahaa
I snart en vecka har vi nu seglat innanför korallrevet som binder ihop Raiatea och Tahaa. Det finns ett antal passage in genom revet, allt väl utmärkt, det är fransmän bra på måste t o m Ingvar medge trots hans allmänna skeptisism mot fransmän i ...
Tahaa II
En kort rapport från Tahaa. Vi har nu legat ankrade under 2 dagar vid den lilla ön Tautau. Vi hade hört att här skulle finnas något som kallades coral garden. Ön ligger på barriärrevet och består egentligen av 3 små öar. Mellan öarna ...