On the second day we woke up early to have a nice swim in the swimming pool and get our luggages ready. We were heading off Papettee and to an island close to it...Raiatea! Only 198 km away from Tahiti; thus a 40 minute flight. We got on an ATR and flew quickly to the next island. As stated by Air Tahiti magazine, Air Tahiti has chooseen to have a fleet of ATR because they do not have strong engines. Later in the magazine it was argued that this led to less waste of fuel. At Raiatea we collected our multiple luggages and headed of to our little hotel. This is a small family hotel, very colonial and far away from a big city. Its extremly calm...once you jump into the water the fishes are right there. If you throw some bread into the water the fishes litteraly come up to you to eat out of your hand and pass infront of you..... quite amazing!! We even have free wifi to update blogs! Things start early, breakfast is from 7 to 8.30 and by 10 pm they close all the lights and leave me here alone with my computer updating my blog! Our first day at Raiatea was mainly spend hanging around the grass and the swimingpool of this small hostel, as my grandma had high fever and we didnt want to move too much around.
Day 2 lead us to an early morning start, early breakfast some reading and then off we went snorkling. We headed snorkling to what seemed to be a close by small motu- island- Have way my brother and mom surrender and only my dad and I made it there. Unfortunately I did not have my camera with me. The island seemed horrible from war away, but once there it was the typical islnad that you can only see in pictures of paradise. Palm trees, white sand, blue water, no persons and 3 abandoned cats. We walked around and after a few walkings we came back swiming. The swam back wasnt easy, we spend lots of time and had to swim against current. The water was calmed but still if u didnt swim it took you away from the area. After swiming for at least 30 minutes we finally got on shore, and it starting raining hard. It is rainy season. We didnt get off at the same place we had jumped into the water so we walked through the road till we got back. Lunch, Photography,Reading...and the afternoon passed by.
The destinations that one can reach from FAAA airport in Tahiti were all desnatinations I have never seen in departures screens ever... I took a picture, it felt exotic. Raniroa, ahe, raiatea, bora bora, rurutu... hahahah!!! This airport recieves flights from Tokyo, LA, Paris, Sydney..and yet is an airport which has no fingers, every passanger must get of the planes by stairs.
I put extrem sun cream on my self to make sure I didnt get burned, but now im all red like a shrimp already after the snorkleing and its hurting quite badly. And its only day 3....
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