It almost felt like a scene out of the movie musical South Pacific. Our landing craft-a WWII vintage front-loader-alighted onto the sugar-sand beach with a soft thump, and we stepped off into the ...

Next year, Tahiti will be home to the surfing competition of the Paris Olympics, almost 10,000 miles away from France. But the region has its own annual games, known as the Heiva. Toakura, the ...

Swivelling their hips to the furious beat of pahu drums, dancers whirl like dust devils across a sandy stage erected on the beach. An audience watches, mesmerised, as the music grows louder and ...