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The new operator, Mara Telecom, has signed an agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks to design, build and operate a complete greenfield mobile network in order to offer 3G/HSDAP services in French Polynesia.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Tahaa, Society Islands, French Polynesia Photos pending
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Tahiti or French Polynesian food is known throughout the world because of its exotic fruits, fresh fish and vegetables which are prepared with a strong French influence underlying the Tahitian ingredients. Restaurants in French Polynesia are from a wide variety of backgrounds including and inevitably French and Tahitian, but also Chinese, Vietnamese, and Italian. The sauces [...]
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Papeete, Society Islands, French Polynesia Flying First Class out of Seatac & into L.A., boarding Air Tahiti Nui, with a 10 course meal and many excellent adult beverages we fly out into the sunset. No time to nap and we are there in Port of Papeete, with meals @ cocktails waiting in our room. The temperature is 85 degrees with a slight breeze, perfect...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Moorea, Society Islands, French Polynesia Words to follow - just uploading photos for now.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Papeete, Society Islands, French Polynesia The title of this entry is not meant to imply that Papeete is lost in time, not at all, but it´s the first time I´ve set out on a journey only to arrive there yesterday. It´s kind of bizarre crossing the international date line... Spent my first night in French Polynesia in Papeete, which, apart from being...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Papeete, French Polynesia I will post more adventures in the next week, but I was able to upload a few photos here and let any of you adventurous type know that you are still welcome to join me for a little stretch. The schedule is basically the same from now until the beginning of July. I'm coming home on 08 July for 2 weeks to two months, so...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Rangiroa, French Polynesia Today began like the past several mornings, with an alarm going off somewhere on the boat, rousing me from my half-slumber. And, like the past several mornings, I tried to ignore it. But then I realized that I wasn't fully asleep to start, and getting back to sleep would be nearly impossible with the irregular rolling...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Papeete, French Polynesia I went to visit Papeete as I had only this day left my plane was at 00h30. I just turn in the street, went to visit the market with the profusion of fish and handcraft for the tourist. Yes Papeete seems to be the island where you just come through to go on the other island and the one where you purchase your souvenir before to come...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Papeete, French Polynesia I left again a Paradise to find this time not a Paradise but a Island with a big city. As Papeete is the main Island of French Polynesia, she had also a big part of the population and the construction. In other words, Papeete is not really beautiful: it s nice to get a starting point but I should not advise to stay there too...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Fakarava, French Polynesia Today, I did my last dive in Fakarava: the name is Deriving dive, means that you slide with the stream. I think it was the most spectacular dive I ever done and also the more technical. First you dive in the blue and you go to catch the ground to not slide yet with the stream. When you look around, you discover about 50 sharks which...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Fakarava, French Polynesia Under construction
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Fakarava, French Polynesia I wanted to dive during these few days that I took on Fakarava but I got cold in the plane with the air cooler and my nose and hear were blocked giving the diving impossible as I was not able to equilibrate my hears. So I went to rent a bike and I cross the island to arrive to the passe: a natural canal which allowed the water of...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Fakarava, French Polynesia The first pictures come from the first pension where I landed which was nice but a little bite expensive for my budget. So I ask the diving center to come to pick me up in same time that they were driving to the diving club : on my way to my first dive on an atoll. I met all the team of instructors who gave me the...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Fakarava, French Polynesia As the journey in Club med is not really in my budget even with a very good discount, I left my friends and I went in another Island or I should say an Atoll. The difference came from the fact that after some time the center of the island inside the lagoon just decrease till disappearing in the lagoon. At the end there is only a...
