Day 4 and 5 Island Tour and Snorkling

Day 4:

We headed off early in the morning in a small boat to the island right infront of Raiatea...Tahaa island. Our boat had the 5 of us, 5 greek rude girls and 1 french lady. First stop was a pearl farm. Pearls are harvested here, the entire process was taught to us, and afterwards we obviously got offered some for sale. They were really nice and some necklaces were beautifully expesnsive. My grandma kept jumping on and off the boat - a miracle of nature. We then headed of to a vanilla plantation where they also showed us how to plan the vanilla plants and offered everything made of vanilla for sale. Later came the lunch in an island and some snorkling. I swam with some rayfish and small sharks...yes SHARKS! and later on we headed off to the other side of the island for some snorkling.

We snorkled down some corals which were magically situated by a super expensive hotel. The Taha private resort, blabla costing 1200 euros a bungalow A NIGHT! We were able to get there just by boat and be the only ones snorkling...a pleasure! So many fishes. Its astonishing that the fishes come up to you and swim right besides you with no problems. Unfortunately most of the pictures that I took outside of the water did not come out.

Day 5:

We rented a car and went around the island, 100km trip... nice day, except ITS RAINY SEASON. So we had strong rain fall on us for a while, then sudden stop, then rain again and then sudden stop. Break for some cookies and juices and ran back into the car as the rain hit on us strongly. Pictures, no that nice, rainy day cloudy skies. The interior of this island is very green...and mountainous, not suprisingy with all this rain. We also stoped at Uturoa, the biggest city of the island....There we visited the 4 stands of the market and took refuge from the rain. The market mainly had fruit. The supermarket was extremly expensive, since most of the things where imported from France.

The buses in this island are very intresting, they are like trucks. You can see one in the above image. While going around the island we also found a small van that was opened like a van and served as a shop around the island going house by house.