Relais Mahana Huahine

... reading this blog the opportunity to take my work from me for free. It is so easy to screen capture or download almost any image from the WEB, so a slide show allows me to share my work in a way that is interesting yet produces small quality screen captures. Forgive me for this, I hope that you will choose to still enjoy the slide show photo presentation format.<br>

... nothing available, no tours, no taxis, no buses, nothing. Apparently the cruise ship holds a monopoly on availability, and if you choose not to book one of the cruise excursions, you are out of luck. We joined up with Garnet and Frieda, our tablemates from Melbourne, and tried unsuccessfully to hire any sort of transportation. No one wanted to work. We ...

... wir schon gut die Insel Huahine erkennen, wo uns am naechsten Tag der Flieger hinbringt. Hier gibt es mal ausnahmsweise eine richtige &#8222;Backpacker&#8220;-Unterkunft samt offenem Schlafsaal, aber auch mit einfachen Doppelzimmern, wo man prima andere Reisende treffen kann. Ein deutsch-amerikanisches Paerchen zum Beispiel ist schon seit 3 Jahren auf Reisen, und kein Ende in Sicht (hoert hoert!). Wir wohnen direkt am winzigen Hafen der Insel, und direkt vor ...

off to the island for 2 days. Arrived on time after a pleasant 30min plane ride. Waited for my hotel to come and pick me up but didnt happen and had to hitch hike through 4 different hotels (I couldnt rember the name of my hotel but new it was less than 2km from te airport, hehe). Arrived and got my beachcabin for a little less that 30euros a night so was pretty happy. I arrived a dusk and as such didnt do much that evening just hanged around my beach cabin ...

Hi Everyone, Here it is, our first entry on our travel blog! We arrived in NZ yesterday after 2 fantastic weeks in French Polynesia which was absolutely beautiful. We spent our first night in Papeete the capital of Tahiti and took an early flight the next morning to the island of Huahine. Seth had organised all of our accomodation as a surprise and it really was. We spent the first week on our own little motu (island) just off the coast. We ...

... and a copra plantation on half of it. It was comfortably overcast as we ate our lunch of tomato/cucumber salad, dry pasta, chicken, and baguettes - with sweet bananas for dessert. We gave the remaining chicken to a cat and a kitten; the banana peels, we dropped, at Bernadette's request, into the land crab holes. Paul and I walked to the end of the motu, where we met Keegan and Kyla, who were pretending to be shipwrecked. And, indeed, there was a shipwreck ...

... et surtout, une seule vitesse !). L'intérieur de l'île est aussi magnifique, très montagneux et très très vert.Dans l'après-midi, d'autres amis de Nath et Vai nous rejoignent, et on repart vers le motu. Cette-fois-ci, on reste de l'autre côté de l'île, dans une eau limpide, sans coraux et assez profonde. En gros, une piscine. On se fait le luxe de manger noix de coco et melon (cueillis sur place, évidemment) tout en barbotant dans l'eau.... Trop dure la vie...

... that spoils an otherwise perfect paradise. 1. mosquitoes. they are absolutely everywhere. when you eat dinner, when you take a dump, when you take a shower, when you are sleeping, inside your mosquitoe net, when you are laying on the beach. your bug spray will run out. buy the local cintronella oil. the only places that are immune from mosquitoes are when you are at the sea or at the outer reef. this is my routine everyday: after the last afternoon snorkel ...

... 15 ft away is not their thing so they stayed on the boat. no refunds though... the shark feeder diver grabs a whole bunch of fish and chum. they were cutting up the fishes and delibrately pouring the blood at the center of the semicircle platform. wow this is just too wild. they are attracting sharks while a whole bunch of fat tourists lined up on the underwater flatform. if i were a shark this looks like an all-you-can-eat french buffet with a chinese side dish. i didn't ...

... bay. Fortunately, we had a ketch to follow. We figured, it he sinks, we stop. Natch. Anchored in Baie dlAvea sometime in the afternoon. (I told you I don't use clocks.) Paul's watch. We packed a dinner, and dinghied towards Motu Araara. We quickly discovered that the poles sticking o t of the water marked a passage if one stayed on the outside. Once we rounded Pte. Tiua, we discovered that the Motu was too ...