Romantic, remote and mysterious are the immediate words that often come to mind when thinking about Tahiti and Bora Bora, fueled partly by books and musicals like “South Pacific” and colorful ...

Polynesia is a popular honeymoon destination, but I traveled there solo and had a wonderful time. I rented my own scooter and stayed in guesthouses, a different experience than most honeymooners.

Views from the passenger seat of an SUV transported me to a world far from the traffic and concrete of Los Angeles. On an extraordinary road tour around Tahiti's coastline, it was clear that the ...

When European sailors first arrived in Tahiti in the late 18th century, they were gobsmacked by the extravagant displays of song and dance. But the British missionaries that followed didn’t approve ...

When writing about Tahiti, there is something that compels most scribes to start their pieces with romantic passages from authors like Robert Louis Stevenson, Melville, Gauguin or Michener. If it is a ...

Next year, Tahiti will be home to the surfing competition of the Paris Olympics, almost 10,000 miles away from France. But the region has its own annual games, known as the Heiva. Toakura, the ...

There are two things you need to know about French Polynesia. One: it’s expensive. And two: it has, arguably, the most beautiful islands in the Pacific. There are two things you need to know about ...

For many of the competitors—and the 1,400-odd residents of the wave’s namesake village—this year’s contest is a dress rehearsal for an event with a far larger global profile in a few months’ time.