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Raiatea & Tahaa
Known in legends as Hawaiki, Raiatea remains to this day the cradle of Polynesian culture.
Raiatea is located 229 kilometers from Tahiti, and was the first island settled by Polynesians and the starting point of the great migrations to the Polynesian Triangle of New Zealand in the West, Easter Island in the East and Hawaii in the North.
Raiatea has kept many traces from its past, the most prominent being a great spiritual centre, ...
Raiatea
... the tent. So lovely! So back there we had new neighbours, and new information. Bst of it: there should be - against all rumours - a campsite on Bora Bora! Plus, we had a very good recommendation for our new destination: Huahine. So off to the office of the motel we were, booked our pickup and camping (it's half an hour drive to Huahine Iti) and packed our things for the next ...
You Can't Stop the Music
... It turns out that John was married to the sister of Regis’ brother, Jean Claude, who locally owned a vanilla plantation. Another six degrees of separation moment. We returned the next morning to visit with ...
Jet Ski Tour and the Best Sunset Ever!
... to a Motu for a coconut show and a visit to one of the movie sets that were built for the film 'Couples Retreat'. This was an unexpected bonus and of course was a legitimate Hollywood set - the rocks were made of foam!
On the two hour tour you were able to take in all the different sides of the mountains and it was great fun. Photos are coming soon as our waterproof camera ...
Underwater calidescope! shark and ray swim
... magic. We saw everything you can imagine and everything was alive, vibrant , brilliant. and yes of course the kids got some bread to feed the fish and Maija was actually bit in her fingers by these tropical little mischeivious clowns who were trying to get her to drop her large piece of bread and succeeded. You would not think that the tour could get much betterr but we headed on just a short distance and stopped again. here only the guide and the kids and I went in the ...