Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adventurous travelers can summit Mount Otemanu in Bora Bora, one of 118 islands and atolls in French Polynesia. Photograph by ...

Motu Link Airline secured its AOC in June 2025. To fund the aircraft acquisition, the company raised XPF379.99 million CFP ...

Raiatea’s tempo carries a deeper resonance. Revered as the cultural heart of French Polynesia, Marae Taputapuatea —a UNESCO ...

Thirty years ago this week, on an island in the South Pacific, France conducted its final nuclear test – ending a programme ...

Experience should tell well-traveled warm-weather wanderlusters that when offered this greeting at a tropical resort, it’s best to take it with a grain of sea salt. Too many times has this ...

With two ships based in Tahiti starting in 2026, Ponant is unlocking rare itineraries to the Marquesas, Pitcairn, and beyond.

I was five days into a seven-day voyage on the French Polynesia-based Paul Gauguin when the wild thoughts began. Do I really have to go back? Couldn't I just stay here forever? Lounging by the pool on ...

French authorities intercept a ship carrying five tonnes of cocaine bound for Australia, before releasing the vessel and its crew.

Hawaiians revere Tahiti as part of their ancestral homeland, referred to as Kahiki. But with French Polynesia’s capital, Papeete, located more than 2,700 miles south of Hawaii’s capital in Honolulu, ...