Advertisement
« previous next »
One Final Lagoon Excursion BBQ ...  
   

One Final Lagoon Excursion BBQ ...

... probably the worst of all of our meals, because our fellow tour members took forever snorkeling, so the food had been prepared long before we even had arrived. The chicken held up fairly well ... but the poisson cru was nearly cooked through by the lime juices. It may have well been a very interesting meal here, because it included some items we had not seen before - a type of local fried banana fritter that had turned cold and greasy, and a seemingly steamed banana bread.
Vanilla

January 12th 2016
Geo: -16.6303, -151.49There are two main reasons to visit the little island of Taha'a - for its vanilla farms, and to eat its famous coconut crabs, considered to be a delicacy by locals. But while we had no trouble finding a vanilla farm to tour, we had no such luck with the coconut crabs - it turns out that they are found in the Tuamotus, a group of islands and atolls that are a helluva lo ... read more
Oceania » French Polynesia

French Polynesian Flag The French annexed various Polynesian island groups during the 19th century. In September 1995, France stirred up widespread protests by resuming nuclear testing on the Mururoa atoll after a three-year moratorium. The tests were suspended in January ... ... read more
Advertisement
Tot: 0.037s; Tpl: 0.004s; cc: 7; qc: 10; dbt: 0.01s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1; ; mem: 1mb