Category: South Pacific

Located 850 miles north of Tahiti and 3,000 miles west of Mexico, the Marquesas Islands is the most remote island chain in the world are.  Though named for the Spanish 5th Marquis of Canete, they are the one of the largest island groups in French Polynesia though still only have a combined land mass of…

Tahiti is the most known island in French Polynesia.  An “overseas collective” of France, French Polynesia is made up of 121 islands and atolls stretching across 1,200 miles of the south Pacific Ocean.  Papeete, on the island of Tahiti is the vibrant heart of French Polynesia, you are immediately greeted by the intoxicating scent of…

Roughly 2600 miles (about the same distance from New York to San Francisco) west of Easter Island you’ll find Tahiti.  We spent 3 weeks traveling among the tiny islands and even smaller atolls in between.  Most along the way are uninhabited and many have just a few hundred permanent residents.  Most famous among them is…

Who made the statues, why and how were they destroyed…still a mystery!! Easter Island, or Rapa Nui in their native language, is one of the most remote islands on the earth. It is Chilean territory in the South Pacific known for its over 900 statues, the Moai, carved by Polynesian settlers between the 13th and 16th centuries. As…