Our plane landed in Tahiti around 9.50pm. Special thanks to Lou Lou (the friendly Hawaiian shirt clad Tahiti fellow) who told me abit about Tahiti and helped me brush up on my French. Note to travellers, if you ever fly with Tahiti Nui airlines, don’t be scared to try the fish, its delicious!
Once we disembarked, the rain came down in amounts that would be almost considered illegal in Melbourne. The temperature was sitting somewhere in the high 20’s, most people were covered in a light sheen of sweat after a couple of minutes because of the extreme humidity.
3 locals complete with ukuleles created an island sound-track as beautiful brown Tahitian women handed out flowers tuck to behind your ear – and this was just at the airport!
It was so weird seeing cars driving on the wrong side of the road. It was a little while before I stopped expecting head-on collisions.
The Manava Suite Resort is exactly what you’d expec tof an island resort. Large water-features, island themed deco, shirtless large bellied porters wearing nothing but pareo’s (sarongs, lava lavas) and thongs (jandals, flip flops). The rooms and facilities were all ultra modern due to the place recently opening in March’09.
The shower head was half the size of the shower room!
This made for a very luxurious guilt-free shower before collapsing in bed in exhaustion.
Leg 2 of the journey complete!
That bed looks like it was made by the same guy that invented the dalek's on Dr Who. hehehe. Glad to see your blogging away.
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