A Pueu Village House Tahiti

24th April 2009 Today we are heading back to Tahiti for the last 2 nights of our visit. We woke up at 8.20am and packed our bags before heading outside to try catch a bus. We said our goodbyes to the lady in charge and she in return gave us each a shell necklace and wished us a safe trip. We waited in the heat for 45 minutes until a bus turned up. We had half an hour until our ferry was due to depart at 10.50am, the bus arrived at the ferry terminal at 10.40am. Upon ...

... was leaving for good her home in the South Pacific. Later in the year she will be refitted, renamed the Ocean Princess, and given a new itinerary that will not include Tahiti. We also had a bit of excitement on the disembarkation from Papeete. A large build by the waterfront was fully engulfed in smoke and flames. From it was rising large black columns of a fire that was still feeding and growing. Flames shot from the sides of the building. The local fire department was ...

... see any sharks even though the guy in the pirogue showed us an area where you can find some normally. Got back to the shores pretty tired tried to take a foto we the timer [had ten seconds to push the button run towards the pirogue grab a row and turn around], and after the second try in nearly worked out but jsut left it at that hehe. Took the car again to go around the southern island. Beuatiful scenary, way nicer than the north as less urbanised ...

... and realised we couldn't use the fast ferry and so would be beyond our deadline. I called the ship to check (sailing time hadn't been certain when we left her in the morning) but the captain said we couldn't be any later. So we abandoned the ferry and took a taxi up the mountain to the Belvedere instead. We had a chatty driver, who told me a lot of very interesting things about the mountain, local ...

High cliffs, cascading waterfalls, dense forests, beautiful, stunning, magnificent, dark lava rock, spectacular= it could only be Tahiti! Part of the windward islands, Tahiti is one quarter the total surface of French Polynesia and Papeete is the capital. The language is French, the currency Francs and the prices accordingly; A hamburger and soda costs 40 dollars and that is U.S. not č. Seems hard to believe I was here only last Sept. I have ...

... Ford Fiesta (auto as Paul hasnīt driven a left hand drive car before) and drove round the whole of the island - starting with the west side first. Itīs 39 miles and took about 2.5 hours. The views were stunning and it finally felt like we were in the tropics (well, it helped that is was sunny!). Lots of fruit, palm trees and flowers. Our first stop was at Hotel Tipanier where these is access to a beach next to the hotel. We ...

Tahitian Photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3 5449&id=551865803 &ref=mf More croissants and pain au chocolat for breakfast :-) Today we went on a 4x4 safari across the centre of the island. After we finally got across town (busy due to xmas eve shopping) we head inland up in to the mountains. It was raining on and off but it didnīt matter ...

Photos - having problems with uploading to Travelpod so have uploaded on Facebook. Here is a link that everybody can view, even if you are not registered to Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3 5449&l=12792&id=551865803 Woke up on the 23rd Dec and will go to bed on the 22nd! Managed to get the 5.15am shuttle with no problem. Another couple in it were on the same flight and were ...

... distance of a supermarket, some shops, and restaurants on the beach, and the employees of all those places knew at least a little English so communicating was much less stressful. There were a bunch of roosters and hens roaming around our hostel so we got quite a wake-up call right outside our open window every morning around 5am when the roosters decided to let us know the sun was up. Thus my sleep-wake schedule is still pretty jacked even ...

After Easter Island we flew further west across the Pacific Ocean for five hours, stopping in at the French Polynesian islands of Bora Bora and Tahiti. Most of these pacific islands are volcanic calderas and so from the air they look like rubber rings with a football in the middle! As we flew closer to Bora Bora we could see that rubber ring is actually a ring of barrier reef and sand islets surrounding the ...