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In the Remote Marquesas Islands, Nature Is at Its Most Intimidating—And Irresistible
02.01.2024 - 23:09 / cntraveler.com
The dog was carrying a whole baguette crosswise in his teeth. He trotted off the beach at the head of the cove, through a scrim of palms, maneuvering it between a red flowering hibiscus and a beached outrigger canoe. We followed. The dog passed a low tin-roofed house, one of only six dwellings in this roadless, remote island valley. He skirted two shirtless young men untethering a horse from a breadfruit tree. Ink covered their chests and arms in black patterns that looked like manta rays and birds. The dog went on, jauntily carrying his baguette, passing a grapefruit tree that shaded a telephone booth. Labeled “Téléphone” and containing a coin-operated pay phone, the steel-and-glass cabin looked wildly out of place in this setting. But we were in the Marquesas, where I was learning not to be too surprised by anything.
A decorative map at the four-bungalow Hakamoui Plage on ‘Ua Pou
Riding down main street in the town of A‘akapa on Nuku Hiva
The Polynesian name for the Marquesas is Te Fenua ‘Enata, the Land of Men. This volcanic archipelago of 12 islands is located 900 miles northeast of Tahiti and 2,340 miles from anywhere else. Only six islands are populated. They are so remote that they were one of the last places on earth to be colonized. They are so rugged that before the French brought baguettes and téléphones, each of their many distinct, walled-in valleys had its own tribe. The island my wife, Kim, and I were on was Nuku Hiva, the largest in the chain. We planned to spend three nights here, then move on to the smaller islands of ‘Ua Pou and Hiva Oa. This morning we had taken a boat in rough seas to get to the Hakaui Valley, where we hoped to hike up to a waterfall called Vaipō.
Maria, our guide for the day, glanced at the phone booth. “Do you want to call your grandmother?” she asked, her eyes sparkling. I was also learning that the Marquesan sense of humor is as relentless as the trade winds. Maria was a descendant of the valley's original tribe and was related to everyone who lived here.
“That'd be tough,” I said. “My grandmother is in heaven.”
She cocked her head as if to say “So what?” and followed after the dog.
Waves pound the rocky shore of Hakamoui Beach, on the island of ‘Ua Pou
Waiting out the rain as a storm passes through Nuku Hiva’s Hatihe‘u Vall
The trail to the waterfall ran along a small river before entering dense tropical forest. There was barely a breeze, and what breeze there was carried the scents of humid earth, cool water, and tiare, the fragrant white flower that blooms everywhere and is braided into leis. The walls of the verdant canyon soared above us. We waded across the river, which was brown with recent rain, and clambered out. As we climbed the path, I noticed that
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