Fare Maeva Moorea

... there offering the earphones not comprehending why he was getting completely ignored. So i had to gesture to the attendant that he was in fact blind - and i can tell you there is no international gesture for "he is blind". My effort took a while for the attendant to understand - by which stage of course the blind guy had copped on to the fact that something was going on. MORTO!! I hope he didn't take me moving seats as an offence - I just wanted to grab a ...

... days but I think we have made a decision to leave here a day early and head back to Tahiti and find somewhere to stay near the main town for the last 2 days. Shopping packed away, we head to beach across the road. We found somewhere to lay our towels and went for a dip. The water never got any deeper the further you went out, which when you want to swim makes things rather difficult. The sand beneath our feet was like quick sand and felt really weird, we all got out and ...

Thank you for your patience, our friends! Luana's mother underwent emergency surgery last week, leaving us with very little time to for anything else. Her mom is doing well now so here is our next installment, again, with no text. Enjoy the fantastic pictures though as we found Tahiti the high point of our trip. No surprises there, we guess!

... strong so we didn't make it to all of the Motu's. It was another relaxing day of beach time and snorkeling. I also must note that we cooked all of our meals at the bungalow and made some really great dinners with local fish and produce, we also proved that one can go to Moorea without spending much money. Overall we had a great time and the next day we caught our flight to the world famous vacation destination of Bora Bora.

... grey reek sharks. I must point out that we are not staying at the Intercontinental just taking full advantage of the vast infinity pool, raked white sands, the men that exchange your towels the minute you sweat & a golf car that chauffeurs you around. And how do we do this? With fingers crossed, a great big smile & a "bonjour" when we stroll confidently through the open air reception. But there is one minor draw back - a can of cold, local beer & a fresh tropical ...

... like 5pm tonight and then get back into Tahiti at like 7pm tonight. Then we spend the night docked and get up bright and early and off we go. We have to leave all our bags outside our room tonight so they can pick them up and get them ready to go. Then we have to be out of our rooms by 9am and then we get off the ship at about 1pm. We have a day room at a ...

... things during my trip. In the evening, after devouring a book in a park near by some school teenager who were doing a dance battle: you're going with only 2 per 2 and you must dance the best of the 2. I was surprise to see how well they were dancing and already how their dancing were suggestive for 12 years children. Anyway, was nice and I had music in the background during my reading. In the evening, I went ...

... from the sea, their long silver bodies glistening, making huge leaps and racing to get out of the path of the ship. When we saw birds, we knew we were close to the island. January 19, Saturday We arrived at Nuku Hiva this morning at 7am. It was hot on deck, even at that time of day-the air temperature was 89 degrees and the water temperature was 82-balmy, except for the humidity-though the breezes kept us comfortable as we walked around on the ...

... to be in an English speaking country in six days, as horrible as that sounds. Lucky for me Liz and Rachel both speak a lot of French, but it's really hard to have to rely on someone else so heavily. After that we went looking for a supermarket or pharmacy and ended up at a sports store to find Liz some board shorts and me a swimming suit. And guess what - I bought one! Of all things. Liz never found her board shorts; not after shop after shop. All they ever had were ...

... hot - unsheltered, unbreezy - and bumpy (more coral, less sand). At the airport, we turned back to the main road - paved - and retraced our steps to town. The bike shop was closed upon our return, but the art shop next door was willing to the collect the bike keys and money. We were very hot and sweaty, so we walked out to the beach for a quick swim. A few houses near the beach seemed to be the only either wealthy European holiday or wealthy ex ...