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Both tourists and travelers alike enjoy sightseeing and exploring on Moorea Island. The island is rather small, and one can easily experience many of the sights and general points of interest in a day or two.This page highlights some of the island's most popular sightseeing options and ways of experiencing them, either on your own or via organized tour. TST makes sightseeing and island exploring options easy! If you want MORE choices,
simply check out our other "To SEE" pages: UNIQUE ATTRACTIONS and ARTISTS, CRAFTSMEN & OTHER SPECIALTIES.
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"CIRCLE ISLAND" TOURING
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Because of his extensive knowledge of the islands and sense of humour and
larger than life personality, Carl's Circle Island Tour of Moorea should be
on everyone's shortlist of things to do.
Living and working in Tahiti and Moorea for over 20 years, Carl has become
somewhat of a local legend due to these fantasticly entertaining circle island
tours. Carl also gives great circle
island tours on the island of Tahiti!
Need a place to stay on Moorea? Carl's Place offers
2 of the best bungalow values on the island.
See
CARL'S PLACE website for all the details.
Package special offer: Get a FREE TOUR of Moorea to
any customers who rent the bungalows for a week at a time. (not a hard thing to do, considering how awesome Moorea is!)
SEE OUR DIRECT LINKING WEBSITE FOR ALL THE DETAILS!
AND THE REST OF THE LISTINGS:
LE PETIT TRAIN
DE MOOREA |
MOOREA EXPLORER |
ALBERT TRANSPORTS |
TOREA
NUI TRANSPORTS (MATE & LOULOU) |
BENJAMIN
TRANSPORTS |
For more options of "Circle island touring" on Moorea, see these categories:
SUNSET CRUISES, GLASS BOTTOM BOAT TOURS, & MORE: See the RELAXATION page.
LAND TOURS
BY 4X4: See the ADVENTURES page.
PINEAPPLE
FACTORY & FRUIT JUICE DISTILLERY
Among
other things, Moorea is known as the "Pineapple Island" for its abundance
of well established Pineapple plantations yeilding large and commercial quantities
of the tasty fruit. These plantations make for an interesting visit if you're
so inclined.
Many sell their fruits to Moorea's largest and most famous fruit
processing plant and well known juice company- Jus de Fruits de Moorea, (sporting
the brand name "Rotui" fruit juices, from which you are sure to try
if you spend any more than one day on the island). The fruit processing plant
has become a popular sightseeing attraction over the years.
There are no organized
tours or particular times to visit- just showing up and wandering into the factory
is accepted (daytime hours obviously, see details below). 
It's really quite interesting. You'll see conveyer belts
with various people doing specific jobs relating to pineapple or fruit processing.
Chopping, cleaning, quality controlling, joking, loading trucks, etc.
After you've seen the process, it's time
to taste the products at the very nice specialty store on the property that
sells just about every kind of local fruit product you can think of! Pineapple
liqours and various other tasty fruit juices, Pineapple and Grapefruit gifts,
Papaya T-shirts and pareos, and lots of other products you can only buy here.
The whole visit can be casually made in about 1 hour.
The Pineapple factory of
Jus De Fruits de Moorea is located at approximately PK 11 in
Pihaena on the main coast road, and has free admission. Open Monday- Friday
8:30 am- 4:30pm, and weekends 9- 4:00 pm |
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This Marae is located on
private land, but you can still get up close for pictures. |
ANCIENT MARAES & ARCHEOLOGICAL SIGHTS
The ancient Maraes (pronounced MAH - RISE) of Moorea are symbols to many of the history of the polynesian islands themselves. Fascinating and well studied sources of archeological interest, these Maraes are amazing to experience even if you're not a big history buff.
Moorea has quite
a few of them in good or restored condition and they are not hard to find if
you know their general locations. (Some of the largest and most impressive are
right off the side road that goes to the Belvedere lookout.)
You'll have to keep an eye peeled for the signs, but they are well worth stopping,
wandering about, photographing, and wondering of what used to be...
Many of Moorea's regularly running tour operators make these Marae their regular
stops and can explain quite a bit about their interesting history and lore.
(See 4x4 Excursions and various Sightseeing Tours on our "To Do" pages for list of companies traveling to these Maraes regularly, or discover them on your own via our "Do it yourself" road tour.)
FARE VANILLA
An interesting and particularly fragrant place to visit, this is the home of the "Tahitian Gold" vanilla product line... See how quality Tahitian vanilla is grown and processed and converted into many lovely vanilla products for you to purchase.
Fare Vanilla: Located at PK 6, Afareaitu. |
UNUSUAL ACTIVITIES CENTER
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PAPETOAI TEMPLE
Located
in the village of Papetoai on Moorea (at Pk 21), the Papetoai temple (church)
is one of the more interesting among the dozens of churches found throughout the
islands of French Polynesia.
Originally built by missionaries between 1822
and 1827, (and rebuilt since then), this unique octagonally shaped church is the
oldest European building in the South Pacific.
Deliberately built on top of
an old marae, (can you guess why?), today there still stands one large spike shaped
stone on the property left as a reminder of its Polynesian past.
PEARL FARMS
Information coming soon...
TROPICAL AQUARIUM CENTER
Information coming soon...
KELLUM GARDEN STOP
Information coming soon...
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