Huahine

75 km² • 6 263 residents • 669 m (Mount Turi)

Huahine has all the hallmarks of its neighbouring islands — a lagoon, motu and mountains — but very few people. There is just one main village, Fare, where the ferry arrives alongside two small cafés. Beyond it lie vanilla plantations, traditional stone fish traps still in use today, and the largest collection of marae in Polynesia, at Maeva, a site that has been continuously inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Access

40-min flight from Tahiti

Good to know

Huahine is the starting point for the famous annual pirogue race, the Hawaiki Nui Va’a. This sporting event brings rowers from Polynesia, New Caledonia, Hawaii and mainland France.

Ideal for

Culture, authenticity, surfing

Not to be missed 

• The Maeva marae complex and Fare Pote’e
• The blue-eyed eels of Faie
• Avea Beach on Huahine Iti
• The traditional stone fish traps of Lake Fauna Nui
• A visit to a pearl farm and vanilla plantation
• Maroe Bay
• Fare village

Image credits
1, 2, 4 – ©TAHITI TOURISME/Gregoire Le Bacon
3, 5, 7, 9 – ©TAHITI TOURISME/Teriitua Maoni
6 – ©TAHITI TOURISME/Overpeek Studio
8 – ©TAHITI TOURISME/Kim Lawson