09/08/08

Since 1998...

I traveled several times to French Polynesia. A little piece (or more exactly several pieces) of France exactly at the other side of the world. If Tahiti is a well known paradisiacal destination,  Moorea, the twin island, deserves a  real stopover because it's wilder than Tahiti. Not far away, Huahine welcomed us for a while. I really loved this small and wild island. Tetiaroa is more touristic (Marlon Brando's island, also known as Birds' island) was the first atoll I landed on, I will never forget its magic beaches. In the Tuamotu archipelagos: Manihi is an atoll where we had the opportunity to stay a week in a pearl farm. We were lost in the middle if nowhere (not exactly! Lost in the middle of the ocean, but is it that different?) , without any civilization around us, we were alone on a sand beach which was a couple of hundreds meters wide and long,  just emerging out of the Pacific. This is definitively an absolutely bloody sensation.

 Finally I saw few of these islands, each of them being very different from the other ones. I would love seeing one day Nuku Hiva in the Marquise archipelagos, or having a look what I could see in the Gambier. Little pieces of land emerging from the ocean, that is right, but total superficies are greater than the  Europe's ones!

 Everyone has already seen wonderful pictures of paradisiacal Tahiti's beaches, with or without not less wonderful vahine (= women). I confirm that Yes, it is really like that.  Hence I would like to present you a unique picture taken at Pueu, in Tahiti iti. I particularly appreciate this place and when I sit on this tree branch, in front of the endless Pacific ocean, I have the strange feeling I arrived ...where I had to go.

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