Unique Tahiti Black Pearls
Famous all over the world for their uniqueness and beauty : Tahiti pearls are better known as Tahiti black pearls. The word is poerava in Tahitian, for “poe” the pearl and “rava” black. Are Tahitian black pearls really black? No, but almost:...
The great art of the emblematic «tifaifai»
Old good times now seem so far away… I mean these antic times where the schooners « Maire » and « Niumaru » were assuring the connection between Moorea
The mysterious «tahu’a», Polynesian priests
Old good times now seem so far away… I mean these antic times where the schooners « Maire » and « Niumaru » were assuring the connection between Moorea
The enigmatic “marae” of Tahiti & her islands
Outside of Tahiti and her islands, the “marae” arouse as much interest and interrogation as the mysterious “Moai” of Easter Island. In many respects, the marae are part of the great enigmas of the South Pacific.
My return to enigmatic Moorea
Old good times now seem so far away… I mean these antic times where the schooners « Maire » and « Niumaru » were assuring the connection between Moorea
Cuisine of Tahiti and her Islands
The cuisine of Tahiti and her Islands is the great and rewarding result achieved by nearly a century…
Tahitian handicrafts and its islands
The manual skills and the creativity of the Polynesians are no longer to be demonstrated…
Traditional Tahitian dances – cultural survivors
Although traditional Tahitian dances survived to the present day, they owed it historically to the Tiurai festivals
Tiurai and Heiva, July festivities in Tahiti & her islands
Often, it does not take much for the good events to happen or not … Just a detail, a fortuitous fact…
Matari’i i ni’a” or the rising of the Pleiades in the skies of Tahiti and her islands
If you came to Tahiti and her islands with the deep wish of actually meeting the Polynesian people