The preservation of the environment and traditions, added to its relative distance off the beaten track, gives it an authenticity and a quality of life that visitors have recently started discovering. The art of weaving reaches here its summit of creativity and aesthetics in the making of hats, bags and mats, joining pandanus fibers, coconut or ''aeho'', reed from the Australs.

Lying nude beside the ocean, 'the garden of Marquesas' has no reef, and offers her fertile coastlines to the deep currents of an unleashed sea in which one can neither see the bottom, nor various coloured shades, nor coral.

The Society islands archipelago (composed of the windward islands and leewards islands) is a group of high, tropical islands surrounded by lagoons. The main island is Tahiti, the largest of the Polynesian islands with Papeete as its administrative capital.The Society archipelago includes the island of Moorea, Huahine, Raiatea, Tahaa, Bora Bora, Maupiti which are the most popular

The largest of the Polynesian archipelagoes includes 76 islands and atolls extending over more than 20,000 square kms. Asleep for many years, now it has come back to life through the establishment of some 250 pearl farms and tourism based on rich scuba diving sites which make it a winning destination.