Traveling and Hotels

To islanders addicted to the municipality pace of life, this is the only place to be and they lap up the gritty nightlife, cinemas, penalization and endless array of food on hand. The island is very much centralised around Pape’ete, the pint-sized chaotic capital with its traffic jams and smells of flowers, sweat and salt air. Many people immediately hightail it out of island for the white-sand elation of Mo’orea or Bora Bora so that ironically, the most accessible and well-known island ofFrench Polynesia remains more off the beaten track than its far-flung sisters.

Yet this is the heart of French Polynesia and it would be a shame to bypass the waterfall-laden, shadowy mountains, unpretentiously bonny black-sand beaches and distinctly Polynesian buzz that make island a gem in its own right. No, there aren’t some sweeping white beaches and vistas over a argonon blue lagoon are few and far between. Tahiti Cheap Travel Packages 2010 This probably isn’t the island whose photograph was on your holiday brochure.