Best place hands down in all of the Society Islands! It is a combination of the pretty lagoons of the atolls (Tuomotu’s) and the beauty of the volcanic islands of the Marquises. It is a smaller, less touristy Bora Bora.
We walked around the island today. It’s that small! It only takes about 3hours to go all the way around. Then, we actually walked across a section of the lagoon where it is shallow, over to one of the bigger motu’s (about a mile). This was so cool!!! We had arrived in paradise!
We stopped in little artisan shops, drank coconut water, well, out of coconuts, bought coconut bread out of the back of a truck, and gleaned as much fruit as we could get our hands on (bananas, mangos, papayas, breadfruit, etc.). It was an eventful day.
The water color was so inviting so we spent a lot of time in it. The first day we got there, we went snorkeling in the channel. The next day we got up and went snorkeling again. Then we walked around the island. Then the following day we went swimming again. This time with a mission – find and swim with the Manta Rays! I ended up being the lucky individual who did that. It was only one and the visibility was not so good but boy, was it huge! It was a great experience. Due to the weather window and sailing conditions anticipated, we left that afternoon for the Cook Islands. Bye, bye French Polynesia! Bring on the English.
Best place hands down in all of the Society Islands! It is a combination of the pretty lagoons of the atolls (Tuomotu’s) and the beauty of the volcanic islands of the Marquises. It is a smaller, less touristy Bora Bora.
We walked around the island today. It’s that small! It only takes about 3hours to go all the way around. Then, we actually walked across a section of the lagoon where it is shallow, over to one of the bigger motu’s (about a mile). This was so cool!!! We had arrived in paradise!
We stopped in little artisan shops, drank coconut water, well, out of coconuts, bought coconut bread out of the back of a truck, and gleaned as much fruit as we could get our hands on (bananas, mangos, papayas, breadfruit, etc.). It was an eventful day. 
The water color was so inviting so we spent a lot of time in it. The first day we got there, we went snorkeling in the channel. The next day we got up and went snorkeling again. Then we walked around the island. Then the following day we went swimming again. This time with a mission – find and swim with the Manta Rays! I ended up being the lucky individual who did that. It was only one and the visibility was not so good but boy, was it huge! It was a great experience. Due to the weather window and sailing conditions anticipated, we left that afternoon for the Cook Islands. Bye, bye French Polynesia! Bring on the English.
