A beautiful week in Tikehau
10/08/2021 Two days ago, I came back from one of the best holidays I had ever had. Sunny weather? Check. Sea? Check. Beaches? Double check. The paradisiac atoll my family and I went to was Tikehau, a two-hour flight from Tahiti. Tikehau has about five hundred inhabitants, almost all of whom are fishermen. When we arrived on 3 July, after a one-hour delay, we were welcomed by our hotel's staff. They drove us in a minivan for ten minutes, past hundreds of coconut trees, to a tiny port where a motorboat was waiting for us. We sailed for twenty minutes before arriving at an overwater cabin, the hotel reception. Our hotel was called, drumroll please,..."Le Tikehau", with 37 bungalows, 2/3 of which are overwater. The first three days our bungalow was an overwater suite, with a queen sized bed, two single beds, a huge bathroom with a bath and shower, and best of all, a double-levelled outside deck with two deck chairs, a fare pote'e with a table and chairs, and a showe...