| |  | | | Travel stories from French Polynesia | Collection of 22 travel stories from French Polynesia. Written by your friends on the road. | |
| | | | |  | | | | |  | French Polynesia, Moorea
2004-10-31, Moorea, French Polynesia. By: pedro | | That was in Moorea that I've enjoyed some of my best beach holidays and that was on the first week of November 2004! I wish I could have visited other islands such Bora Bora or Huahine but life there ... |
| | | |  | Rays!
2006-08-05, Tahiti, French Polynesia. By: mishiva | | Waking up early the next morning, beyond our wills by the irksome rooster, we headed back for Moorea Tattoo. That morning, James was scheduled to do a traditional Polynesian tattoo and invited us to c... |
| | | |  | Birthday Girl
2006-08-04, Tahiti, French Polynesia. By: mishiva | | Throughout the night, despite how drained we were from our travels, the roosters incessant crowing at all hours kept us drifting in and out of our slumber.
We eagerly got out of bed inspired by th... |
| | | |  | Papeete - Moorea
2006-08-03, Tahiti, French Polynesia. By: mishiva | | Despite spending the night on the floor, waking up before the sun rose and battling the early morning downpour, our spirits were up and we had smiles plastered on our faces…
“Aahhh….sunshine, sand ... |
| | | |  | Tahiti - Paradise found?
2004-02-17, Papeete, French Polynesia. By: katyliz | | Greeting me at the airport with a flower-lei, Laura & I hopped into her car and battled the traffic that is typical in the main island of Tahiti. From her house it was less than a minute walk to the ... |
| | | |  | A Tahitian Afternoon in Style
2006-06-28, Tahiti, French Polynesia. By: mishiva | | The quiet morning allowed us to wash and change in the “toilettes” comfortably, and we were off to Papeete in a “le truck”; a red and white rattling automobile.
Downtown, we treated ourselves to a ... |
| | | |  | Towards Paradise...
2006-06-27, Tahiti, French Polynesia. By: mishiva | | Tuesday night was a mad rush – work, exchange money, buy necessities, clean, deforst fridge, pack, deliver the plants to the neighbours, pack, burn CDs, pack, clean the floors, pack, dye hair, pack…p... |
| | | |  | | | | | | Moorea... and my future french husband
2005-04-18, Papeete, French Polynesia. By: roamingris | | well i didnt get up at 5:45. um, duh. buuut grandma did, so i lived vicariously through her camera. i was up by 6:30 however and that may be the last time in my life i see the numbers 6, 3, and 0 lin... |
| | | |  | LA to Tahiti... i love airplane food!
2005-04-17, Papeete, French Polynesia. By: roamingris | | Well, it was a typical family departure... we planned to leave at 7:30 sharp and thus, naturally, didnt pull out of the driveway until 8:34 not so sharp. i had to do my science project last night bec... |
| | | |  | Tahiti
2005-03-07, Tahiti, French Polynesia. By: emmaken05 | | Hi All,
Yes we are alive. Just havent accessed the net in a while. Well we are in Tahiti at the moment. We arrived at 3 in the morning on Sunday to a man plaing a guitar and woman putting flowers i... |
| | | |  | Under A Thatched Roof In Paradise
2005-01-20, Moorea, French Polynesia. By: mala | | At the risk of stating the obvious, Tahiti is hot. After about ten minutes in the sun you start to hear an odd hiss and realize that your skin is in fact frying. The ocean is just cool enough to be he... |
| | | | | the adventure begins
2004-09-22, tahiti, French Polynesia. By: erikd | | We arrived in tahiti at 2:40am after a 3 hour flight to L.A., a 3 hour wait there and then a 9 hour flight to Tahiti. Stayed in the airport till daylight which was about 6:00am and hopped on board a p... |
| | | |  | Faaa from home but back on familiar ground
2004-03-19, Tahiti, French Polynesia. By: Alex_RTW | | Not for the first time, we found ourselves emerging from a plane to the strumming of a ukelele trio - the unique sound of Faa'a Airport, Tahiti. No sooner were we eunited with our luggage than we were... |
| | | |  | Snorkelling with Sharks and Stingrays
2004-02-03, Moorea, French Polynesia. By: khart | | I've just been snorkelling with sharks and stingrays, which was absolutely fantastic, but very scary!
We set off on a boat with some very rich americans ('I love the size of your diamond' type cove... |
| | | | | Don't know what happened there!
2004-02-02, Moorea, French Polynesia. By: khart | | Anyway - the next day we both had different accomodation booked in the neighbouring island -Morea. We decided to get a ferry, but when we got to the ferry terminal;, we found that there wasn't another... |
| | | | | Another Hard Day in Paradise!
2004-02-02, Moorea, French Polynesia. By: khart | | Firstly you will have to excuse me if this doesn't make any sense, i am using a french keyboard which is a little tricky!
I arrived safely in Tahiti! We were greeted by a band, and a lady giving ou... |
| | | | | Millionaire's Paradise
2003-12-07, Bora Bora, French Polynesia. By: Alex_RTW | | The flight from Huahine was scheduled to take around ten minutes and as we climbed after take-off, we could easily make out where we had stayed at the Vaihonu. We barely got above the clouds before de... |
| | | | | Whale watching on the Savage Island
2003-12-05, Huahine, French Polynesia. By: Alex_RTW | | This flight would be a 25 minute monster compared to the short hop to Moorea from Papeete. After several dodgy airbourne moments on previous flights, another 'incident' made us twitch, adding to the c... |
| | | | | Life's a beach...
2003-11-23, Moorea, French Polynesia. By: Alex_RTW | | Like most of the Society Islands, Moorea is the top of a long extinct volcano, blanketed in lush, tropical greenery. All around the island there is a protective ring of barrier reef broken only where ... |
| | | | | Welcome to the Happy Isles of Oceania
2003-11-12, Papeete, French Polynesia. By: Alex_RTW | | It was well past midnight when we landed at Faaa Airport, which was around 4 in the morning Rapa Nui time but the four piece band that welcomed us, enthusiastically belting out what sounded like revve... |
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