- More than 15,000 kilometers from the metropolis, French Polynesia sounds like a dreamy end of the world with its 118 islands scattered in the Pacific over an area equivalent to the surface of Europe. Its almost 300,000 inhabitants are united around a common value: respect for nature.—TV5MONDE Europe
- Beginning of the journey in Tahiti: Ismaël and Pierre Florentin have walked to the Tunavai mountain ; they enjoy the panorama over the island with its coral reef.Then they have a paragliding flight over the mountains and the hills.After that Ismaël meets Hinatea Bernadino, the world champion of Polynesian canoeing; they have a boat tour and reach the boarding house "Bonjouir": Annick Paofai receives them: Ismaël and Hinatea enjoy then a Polynesian canoe trip.Later Ismaël travels by ferry to Temae'e (Moorea Island), on board he meets Charlotte Esposito (Association Oceania): they will later see humpback whales.Ismaël meets then Taiano Teiho (Organisation Jardinier de la mer) who takes care for te coral reef: they make free diving to plant coral stems in a nursery of coral.In the afternoon they meet Touro Teiho, Taiano's father and they prepare in an earth oven sweet potatoes, bananas and pork and they cover the oven with bananas leaves.After 3 hours they can enjoy the food cooked in the earth oven. After that Ismaël meets Charlotte Esposito, they take a boat and they go snorkeling among the rays and little sharks: the French Polynesia has been declared sanctuary of 21 species of sharks.Next stop: Raiatea where Ismaël meets Titaua Raapoto, the French professor and specialist of Polynesian culture: they go to the college of Farao where the students are planting trees and Ismaël plants a tree.Then Titauna and Ismaël go by kayak to an islet: Titaua has a gift for Ismaël , the bark of a paper mulberry and finally they walk through the hills to a marae (a sacred place ): they do a cleansing ritual and are received by a wise man who tells them about the Polynesian gods, the mana (forces of the elements) and the spreading of the Polynesian folks from this sacred place. Besides we see zooms about the "pensions de famille" (boarding houses), about camping and voluntary work in a bio farm, about the navigation of the double Polynesian canoe without instruments, about the Polynesian canoe , about the sharks and their protection (the famous Parata shark), about the travel of the freighter Aranui V from Papeete to the Marquesas islands (Hiva Oa where Jacques Brel and Paul Gauguin are buried), about Teahupoo and its great surfing wave (the young surfer Kelia) and about the celebration of the beginning of rain season ( Teiva Tiapoi).—zutterjp48
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