French-Polynesia Places to Visit

On the more than 1000 km ² largest island of French Polynesia (132 000 Ew.) French is the most noticeable impact. Here landed the 1768 French researcher Louis Antoine de Bougainville, in his travelogu...

Even the South Seas, Captain Cook to be connoisseurs of the beauty of the 17 km distant island of Tahiti have been thrilled. From the lush vegetation rise rugged cliffs, the highest elevation is 1207 ...

Whenever ferry or cargo ship at the quay of the capital Fare create wakes up the 175 km northwest of Tahiti, the island (about 5400 inhabitants.) From their slumber. Buses and trucks roll to snack wag...

The atoll is the landscape (almost) pristine alternative to about 45 km east-lying island of Bora Bora - but no restaurants and only half a dozen (passable) pensions (about 80 euros per person includi...

The island can be reached by boat from Raiatea from (Departure from Uturoa Harbor). Because of the many plantations is as vanilla Tahaa island. She is from the same reef as Raiatea surrounded. This pl...

Lies 193 km to almost 290 km ² second largest island of French Polynesia (9000 Ew. Uturoa with the capital) away from Tahiti. Only 4 miles north, in the same lagoon, is the much smaller island of Taha...

The small atoll was prominent in private hands: in 2004, deceased American actor Marlon Brando bought Tetiaroa after being Tahiti in 1960 to the film "Mutiny on the Bounty" was filmed. Much earlier, w...

South of Tahiti draw the six-Austral islands, including the now uninhabited Île Mary, as a last Polynesian Kingdom in 1899 was French. The two main islands of Tubuai and Rurutu are two-hour flight fro...

The ten small islands with a total of only about 30 square kilometers lie in the middle of a large Riffgürtels and at least 1800 km southeast of Tahiti. It can be reached only via Tahiti - either by p...