Make the Most of Your Tahiti Cruise Vacation

The beauty of French Polynesia, a South Pacific archipelago made up of 118 islands and atolls, has beckoned artists and writers including Paul Gauguin, Robert Louis Stevenson and James Michener across the centuries. Poet Rupert Brooke, another luminary captivated by the islands, observed, “In the South Seas, the Creator seems to have wanted to show us what He could do.” And the islands’ appeal still lures modern travelers. No matter how much you have wandered in the world, when you get to Tahiti and other Society Islands (so called by Capt. James Cook as they are contiguous to one another), you can ascertain that their beauty is of such magnitude that it is both captivating and surprising. You’ve only to see a green atoll surrounded by spectacularly white sands and crystalline blue waters to realize that you are in an earthly Eden…a place of mountains, cascades, forests, white- and black-sand beaches and other idyllic panoramas.