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- Papeete
- Capital
- CFP Franc (XPF)
- Currency
- 253,506
- Population
- PF
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French Polynesia Slideshow
French Polynesia
Travel Blogs from French Polynesia
Bora Bora here we come!
... had breakfast by the lagoon, looking out to Bora Bora, in beautiful sunshine and about 28°C. Tough one this. French Polynesia is the dream holiday location - volcanic islands, turquoise seas, brilliant blue skies - just what you want on a ...
Bonjour Sun-shine!
... on Le Truc, a rickety truck with wooden benches for seats, and headed straight to the docks. The only was for us to survive French Polynesia was to escape to somewhere more within our budget! 40 minutes later we were on the small island of Mo'orea. ...
Moorea no more
... for Mel Gibson's film 'The Bounty', and is an impressive bay. Unfortunately we arrived on a Sunday, and nothing goes on in Polynesia on a Sunday. This is true of everywhere we have been. Thanks be to the missionaries, of the past. They have a lot to ...
Day 16
All this relaxation is becoming a blur! Hard to recall what we even did that day at this point. Can pretty much pinpoint it to: reading, music, gym, casino, yada yada!! Emily was a contestant on "Family Feud" (Yes, Yaz and Sara, kinda like The Price is ...
Moorea, the magnificent island
... ; We are enroute to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands now and will arrive the day after tomorrow. After being in the expen$ive French islands, it will be nice to use New Zealand dollars. That short travel blog I sent you from Papeete cost me ...
Off to paradise (to do nowt !)
Hi all Just a couple of lines about our stay at Bora Bora. We first flew into Tahiti the day before we were transferred to the Bora Bora Atol, which is about 40-50 miles Northwest of the main island. You are transferred by a small plane and picked up ...
Natures Treadmill
... a spit, not a small pig either...it was like a Wall Mart, only it wasn't, because you cant buy frozen pigs at Wall Mart (maybe a french Wall Mart??)... If you ever need to provision a boat in this part of the world, that is a good place to do it. Cheap ...
Birthday in the Societies
Hi all, We have been in Huahine for over 10 days now and it is absolutely beautiful. We found a perfect anchorage where we had a 150° view of the fringing reef, which keeps the swell out and helps for a very calm anchorage. We have done a round ...
Tahiti-iti
... throughout this trip because I LOVE taking showers with hot water. We met two guys when we arrived – Sebastian and Vincent both French, Sebastian is a surfer and is looking for work in Tahiti and Vincent took a 6 month sabbatical from his job as a ...
Civilization Again
... 't be bothered to go back to the boat. Honestly, though, spending time with them, eating, swimming, trying to follow the French conversation, was a highlight of Tahiti. When we left Tahiti, we briefly stopped in Raiatea and then in Tahaa, just before ...
Like yesterday
... the airport and gave me the traditional flower necklace of the arrival. Christelle and Sylvain did for the diner my first raw fish from Polynesia. Since that I m addicted to raw fish. It was very nice to see that even they did not know me they came to ...
Rapa Nui
... have one e-mailed to me by a guy I took the tour with. We shall have to wait and see. For now I hope my effort at giving a flavour of the place may suffice. [Easter Island isnīt part of French Polynesia but it doesnīt fit on the Chile ...
Our Tahiti Adventure
We left on Friday morning with Gary and Cindy Green, for our drive to Anaheim, CA to Wendylee and Thommy Bahama's to drop the car and get picked up by the limo to take us LAX for our flight at midnight... We arrived in Papeete, Tahiti the next ...
What the Fakarava?!
Internet is limited here on the Fakarava atoll, so I ll be updating the blog with pictures and text in Tahiti in a few days. Should be there in 5 days. Ciao bbelli!! ...
Cerulean skies and turqoise seas
It is about as beautiful as one would expect from a place called paradise. I am currently staying on the northwest coast of the Island called Moorea, about thirty minutes, by fast ferry, west of papeete. My residence for the past couple of days has ...
Beautiful Moorea
The beautiful view from the Moorea Pearl Resort where we relaxed and recovered from the time change and the 16 hour ...
Nuka Hiva
It would be fair to say that while none of the three of us were sea sick, it was great to set foot on sunny terra firma again this morning amongst the verdant peaks of Nuka Hiva, the first of the 6 Marquesan Islands we will visit; one of the largest with ...
The Pacific crossing (first 3,000 n. miles)
Considering the entry on the Atlantic crossing (nov '09), I do not want to sound repetitive, so I ll try to condense my feelings of the passage in a few sentences. English speaking sailors call this leg of the Pacific crossing "jumping the puddle", ...
Arrival in Paradise
Saturday 25 July Moorea - as soon as we got off the ferry we realized that this is the French Polynesia that is in all of the postcards – lush, majestic mountains, flowers everywhere, and water so blue green you hardly believe it's real. On the way ...
Biking on Fakara
I wanted to dive during these few days that I took on Fakarava but I got cold in the plane with the air cooler and my nose and hear were blocked giving the diving impossible as I was not able to equilibrate my hears. So I went to rent a bike and I cross ...
Day 13
Woke up to a sunny day with a beautiful island awaiting us! We had been told that Moorea has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. Decided we were going to rent scooters to explore the island however they were all out when we arrived. Instead ...
Hangin' With the Tahitians
... ; but whatever they had they were willing to share. Another interesting fact given the discussion in the US about health care: the French government provides free health care; Areti also had 6 weeks off before the birth of her child and 10 weeks after ...
Tahiti
Thurdsay 4th May Packed and checked out by 10.30am, although we had to wait until 9pm before we could catch the courtesy bus to the airport so we had a whole day to waste when all we wanted to do was leave for LA. After sunbathing, swimming in the ...
Ok, what next???
... been lifted. Another close call, another story to tell! On the positive side, we made friends with a really nice French/American couple from Boston. All is well here today. Weather is hot and sunny, lagoon is calm, sea ...
Beach Day
After hitting up the juice factory and drinking about 6 shots of fruit liquors at 9:30 in the morning – Mike and I decided to hit the beach. Unfortunately we had a bit of an accident – Mike burns his leg on the exhaust pipe of the scooter ...
The Weird and Wonderful World of Tahiti
Good morning (well it is here)all. Arrived in Tahiti at 5.30am local time and managed (eventually!) to find a bus which took us to the port in Papeete (complete sh1t hole) and we then hopped on a ferry a small island called Mo-orea. Now before you all ...
Diving and Polynesian Dance
... restaurant of the island with Polynesian Dance and show. First we had a girl who showed us at least 20 techniques to put a Pareo, then 2 boys showed us how to open coconut, and then we had Polynesian dance with Polynesia music and sunset on the ...
Marquesas Islands - The Last of French Polynesia
... even with all of the remedies. 022310 @Sea: We arrived at Hiva Oa, one of the Les Iles Marquises (Marquesas Islands) in French Polynesia, four hours late due to the storm yesterday. We were again greeted by a pod of Spinner Dolphins during our ...
