The islands of French Polynesia, as well as all the beautiful islands of the South Pacific, are one of the favorite travel destinations for honeymooners. In this article I try to give some indications for those who want to make a travel to these dream islands with which I fell in love. The only international […]
Category: Oceania
Maupiti is a small island in French Polynesia in the Society Islands archipelago. The island is located 40 km west of Bora Bora and is served by a small airport located on a “motu” which has air connections to the islands of Tahiti and Raiatea. The “motus” are coral sand islets that form along the […]
Fiji is a multicultural country where the Melanesian inhabitants of the islands and the descendants of Indian workers imported here in the nineteenth century by the British to work in the sugar cane fields live together. In addition to these two main ethnic groups there are also minorities of people from other Pacific islands, China, […]
The Yasawa islands extend from southwest to northeast over an arc of about 100 kilometers west of the two main islands of Fiji: Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. Consisting of about fifteen main islands and countless smaller islands, the Yasawa are a very suitable place to visit on a cruise. WHICH CRUISE TO CHOOSE If […]
Almost all tourists arriving in Fiji do so from Nadi international airport. This airport is located along the west coast of the large island of Viti Levu. Right in front of the coast where Nadi stands is the archipelago of the Mamanuca islands: a chain of exotic islands that are located only a short boat […]
After taking the first part of the cruise, the one that allowed us to visit the spectacular northern Yasawa islands, today we leave from Port Denarau to continue our cruise to the Mamanuca islands and the southern Yasawa. For those who make the 7-night cruise Captain Cook Cruises offers an excursion to choose from among […]
Monuriki: the island of the film “Cast Away”
In Fiji, at the western end of the archipelago of the Mamanuca islands is the small uninhabited island of Monuriki. The island is volcanic in nature and measures approximately 1 km in length and 600 meters in width. The highest part of the island reaches 178 meters in height. The coasts of the island, surrounded […]
Fiji is an archipelago of Oceania made up of over 330 islands of all shapes and sizes. The two largest islands are those of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu which alone account for almost 90% of the nation’s total area. Among all these islands, less than 100 km north-west of Viti Levu and just north […]
Easter Island immediately connects to one word: MOAI. The Moai are human figures carved in volcanic rock, unique works of Easter Island. According to the most recent studies, the Rapa Nui people sculpted these statues between the years 1250 and 1500. In this short period of time the Rapa Nui civilization sculpted about 900 huge […]
Lost in the South Pacific Ocean, Easter Island is a fascinating place from all points of view. Easter Island is one of the most isolated inhabited islands in the world. Its isolation makes it difficult to reach. In fact, it takes almost 6 hours of flight from Santiago de Chile or from Tahiti. The island […]
Easter Island is dotted with volcanic cones. Three are the most important Easter Island volcanoes: Terevaka volcano (altitude 507 meters, the highest point on the island), Poike volcano (altitude 370 meters) and Rano Kau volcano (altitude 324 meters). The fascinating and mysterious civilization of the island make it a unique destination on our planet. The […]
The waterfalls are among the most exciting spectacles of nature. Almost every nation on Earth has waterfalls. There are waterfalls of a few meters high up to waterfalls that approach the kilometer in height. A waterfall is formed when the water of a river falls from a drop. Waterfalls are dynamic systems that vary in […]
Every place on Easter Island has something to discover if you look carefully. Because here the story speaks of an ancient civilization of which we know very little. This island gives the feeling of a place with infinite spaces, but the island is very small. Easter Island is small, dry and desolate, but has infinite […]
Located just under 6 hours flight from Santiago de Chile and at more or less the same flight hours from Tahiti in French Polynesia, Easter Island is one of the most isolated places in the world. To get an idea of the isolation of this island take a map and observe the distances: The nearest […]
Located approximately 2,000 kilometers north of New Zealand, Fiji is an archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean made up of several hundred islands. These islands are located just south of the equator, between the Vanuatu islands, the Tonga islands and the Samoa islands. Fiji is a destination frequented mainly by Australian and New Zealand tourists, […]