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Article: TRAVEL ETC: TAKE ME TO TAHITI Honeymooners who choose to go to the South Pacific usually make for Bora Bora or Moorea. They are missing out on the main attraction, says Mark Rowe
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2001
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Honeymoon couples usually do two things as their aircraft leaves
Tahiti. They argue, tempers frayed by the disappointment that
accompanies the end of their dream trip. But they also glance below
at the rain- soaked, green land with its peaks, high-level plateaux
and steep valleys, and wonder why they failed to spend any time on
one of the most beautiful Pacific islands of all. For everyone who
visits French Polynesia must go through Tahiti, the largest of the
118 islands that make up this vast archipelago.
All but a handful stay only as long as it takes to make their
connecting flight to the islands of tourist legend, Bora Bora and
Moorea. It is quite baffling. Admittedly Bora Bora carries ...
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