Oct 7, 2009 - French Polynesia at last

Robert Louis Stevenson loved Nuku Hiva. ... The ship offered no tours on Nuku Hiva so we had made arrangements for a 4X4 vehicle excursion with some fellow passengers on line, about a month and a half ago, through the Cruise Critic website. ... The Polynesian ceremonial sacred sites (called Marae) we saw on Nuku Hiva date back to about the 12th Century and, the remnants of which have been explored, restored, and preserved over the past twenty years or so. ...