Dream Island Moorea
Motu Moea Moorea, Society Islands, French Polynesia
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Le paradis
Alors nous voila dans un ferry de 30 minutes vers Moorea, une des iles ou l'on retrouve le plus de culture locales. La vue du ferry était magnifique…a l’entrée du port de Moorea il y avait un petit voilier échoué sur la barrière de corail…comme quoi c’est vraiment une protection pour l’ile. En arrivant, nous avons pris le bus local pour se rendre à notre hôtel qui était exactement à l’extrême opposé du port soit 35 ...
Stingray and Shark Encounter
... long, even for the little ones, and are kind of ridged. Some of the big ones were almost 5 feet in diameter! Gentle giants all of them though. The way you lead them around is to hold a piece of fish right on top of their nose where they can't grab it with their mouths, which are underneath, and they just swim with you until you either feed them or they get bored. I did that twice, once with a gentle female ray called Samantha and the ...
Going to Moorea
... A few small fried items later and we set about to find some coffee. The timing was unfortunate since we had to shlep all our luggage around the city, which wasn't a lot of fun. Luckily Tina remembered where the coffee shop was and we just relaxed there for a while. Got some espresso and even some free samples of some fruity energy drink.
With about an hour to go, we set off to find the Pearly Shell to buy Tina a real Tahitian pearl. We'd stopped at a few other stores today ...
The Island of Pineapples
... where France sends all of its wine that it can't shift elsewhere – they only appear to stock French Wine, have a large selection, and a bottle of good Bordeaux is about 1100CFP (about 9GBP).
Our second week on the island was a bit of a wash out as it rained every day, and some days all day! We're now counting the days til we leave.
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We are glad we have been there, as it is probably not somewhere ...
Embarking on our "lune de miel*"
... the national flower of French Polynesia).
We then boarded the air-conditioned shuttle for a 15 minute ride to our hotel: Intercontinental Resort Tahiti. There wasn’t much of a view on the way to the hotel. We caught ...


