Rangiroa, last stop in French Polynesia

Rangiroa is the largest atoll of French Polynesia, it is 75 km wide but the village is only 12 Km long (for 500 m wide). It is an atoll, meaning that there is no mountain, no fresh water, no soil (and hence nothing else that coconut growing on the island ...) and if you want to escape from it, you have to be a good swimmer ! 

This place is like paradise, as long as you dive ! Non-divers might find this place a bit boring as there is no much to do if you are not a diver. However, the dives of the Rangiroa Pass are worldwide famous and are simply amazing ! We have never seen so many big specimens and such a deep blue underwater that down there.

Rangiroa was also our last stop in French Polynesia and we take this opportunity to step back and provide our impressions about this archipel (text from the kids mainly):

What we loved in French Polynesia:

• Diving in deep blue water and swimming in turquoise water,
• It was cool in the pensions with Cats and Polynesian people,
• Polynesian people are all absolutely lovely, always ready to help and always smiling,
• Swimming or snorkelling in the lagon,
• Being in such a nice scenery is magic,
• Living on a Polynesian tempo,

What we disliked:

• The broken GoPro and the Twizy car
• There was a lot of wild dogs everywhere !
• I didn't like that I couldn't swim with the dolphins. (Clarisse)

What we were really not expecting:

• That we could see Dolphins and so many sharks
• We were expecting large beaches and deep water but found only a few of them
• I didn't know that there are black beaches
• The geology and history of the archipel; we didn't know much before travelling there and this is fascinating.

To complete this post, the video of our stay at Rangiroa 😊: