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 ...

The Polynesian Cultural Center is one of the most popular activities in Oahu. So much so, that it’s often even rated as the #1 attraction in all of the island! It’s easy to see why – the Polynesian ...

Last August, Sonya Moore ticked French Polynesia off her travel bucket list. Despite a lot of planning before the trip, looking back, there are a few things she'd have done differently. She would have ...

This is the latest in our series on underrated destinations, It’s Still a Big World. Nothing will ruin a vacation quite like crowds. Whether it’s beaches and bars or museums and mountaintops, large ...

It’s a cloudless morning and the sun is shining brightly off the coast of French Polynesia’s capital and largest city, Papeete, enhancing the water’s already vibrant shades of blue. Though just meters ...

I didn’t know it was possible to cry underwater. It was one of the many unexpected experiences French Polynesia left me with. Before the male humpback searching for a mate appeared, I heard the ...

Sought-after Bora Bora limits visitor numbers to protect environment while rest of French Polynesia pushes for more tourists Bora Bora is close to paradise. The small island is part of French ...

Indigenous Americans and Polynesians crossed thousands of miles of open ocean and made contact with each other as early as 1200 A.D., centuries before the arrival of Europeans, a new study has found.

How did the Polynesian peoples come to live on the far-flung islands of the Pacific? The question has intrigued researchers for centuries. Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl brought the topic to public ...

RAROTONGA – In a far flung corner of the South Pacific a secessionist movement is stirring with its protagonists preparing for a major battle looming half a world away. And if Oscar Manutahi Temaru ...

The leader of the pro-independence Tavini list, Oscar Temaru, after the second round of the territorial elections in Tahiti on April 30, 2023. SULIANE FAVENNEC / AFP In French Polynesia, the ...