Moorea Travel
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Tahiti Islands
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Moorea
Travel Guide
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Moorea lies just 20km from Papeete. Getting there is very easy - there are two slow ferries (takes an hour) and two faster ferries (takes about 40-minutes) with each having four to five services per day, starting as early as 6am. There are also hourly flights from Faaa Airport (every half hour at peak times).
Moorea is without doubt a holiday destination and the lifestyle here is a lot more laid back than Tahiti making it the popular choice. Although the beaches on Moorea are better than on Tahiti, they still don't resemble the pictures from the tourist brochures.
Belvedere Lookout, Moorea
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Opunohu Bay, Moorea
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What Moorea does have though is stunning coastal scenery with razor ridge mountains with dense, inaccessible rainforest. It also boasts the magnificent and much photographed Cooks Bay and the adjacent and even more spectacular Opunohu Bay along which much of the islands accommodation is based. Scuba diving in Cook Bay is good and sailing yachts and cruises often visit. This is also the access point to the lovely Belvedere Lookout with splendid views and some lovely hiking trails into the mountains.
The only really nice beach with good snorkelling is at Hauru Point on the north west of the island. Here there is another major concentration of Hotels and Pension Houses. Other good beaches on Moorea include Haapiti on the west coast and Teavaro on the east coast alongside the Sofitel Hotel.
Hauru Point, Moorea
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Teavaro Beach, Moorea
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There's lots of activities around Moorea from cruises around the bays and coast to 4WD tours of the interior. One not to miss is the Tiki Village south of Hauru Point on the west coast which has cultural performances, a reconstructed Polynesian Village and handicraft demonstrations.
Moorea has a well developed tourist infrastructure - there are plenty of car hire companies at the wharf and airport, lots of restaurants around the coast, shopping centres and gift and boutique shops for browsing.
Readers may also be interested in the following destinations:
Cook Islands Travel Guide
Fiji Travel Guide
Samoa Travel Guide
Tonga Travel Guide
Tahiti Travel Guide
Hawaii Travel Guide
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