Raiatea Village
Travel Blogs from Raiatea
The Sacred Isle
... the past.
Taha'a is the isle of vanilla and can show you the wonderful, simple, everyday life of the natives here. With its beautiful flower shape, Taha'a has sloping mountains and soft sandy beaches to please everyone's tastes.
On these two islands grows the Tiare Apetahi Flower, which grows no where else on Earth. Legend has it that this flower was created when a young Tahitian girl fell in love with ...
Raiatea & Tahaa
... refusing all negotiation for many years. As leader of his men, he tried to oppose the progress of troops who came from Nouméa (New Caledonia), but he was taken prisoner on 16 February 1897 after a series of battles around Tevaitoa.
Our experience
The main reason yachts will come to Raiatea is that it is the last place within the South Pacific that you can have any work undertaken until you get to New Caledonia, Australia or New ...
You Can't Stop the Music
... more old stones (Ann and Mark concurred with Bruce on this one; I guess they’re burning out, too.)
The following day we went to see the only navigable river in the Society Islands, a bit wider than ...
Underwater calidescope! shark and ray swim
... for so many films and books. It is simply impossible not to be inspired here. As I am typing this I am sitting on our stilted hut terrace listening to the small waves, watching the sky calidescopically changing to spectacular shades as the sun is slowly setting. I am sipping a glass of merlot and clad in a soft hilton bath robe. Yesterday we spent here at the resort. The resort i located on a private island and it is only our resort here which makes is very private ...
Back from Tahaa with Eclipse !
... récif au niveau du motu de Céran : je me suis régalée !
Requin pointe noire, balistes Picasso, papillons, chirurgiens bagnards, poissons gendarmes (que j'ai rebâptisé "indien jaune" !), perroquets, anges peau de citron, ..., et raies dont une léopard aigle qui est venue me faire la bise !!!
La nav' sur Eclipse s'est bien déroulée : ambiance décontractée accompagnée ...