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We visited the little island Tahuata in September 2013, a quiet month here in the Marquesas as most of the cruisers are already on their way further west towards New Zealand. We enjoyed the cute, tidy villages and made friends with the locals.

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1/40: Sailing from Fatu Hiva to Tahuata.
2/40: No or funky winds on the western side, so we packed the sails away.
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4/40: Easy dinghy landing in the small, protected harbour of the village Hapatoni.
5/40: Coconuts are dried (see the shed on the right) and sold as Copra.
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7/40: Hapatoni's main road
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11/40: Baie Hanatefau
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13/40: Baie Hanatefau
14/40: Teii's 2-wall house is the only one in Hanatefau
15/40: Teii's kitchen is outside...
16/40: ... and so is the bath room.
17/40: Fruit raid through Hapatoni (everyone here seems to be related with Teii)
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19/40: We had several pods of dolphins around us in Hanatefau for two days.
20/40: Noodle soup with banana and tea for breakfast before Teii guides us up the mountain to see...
21/40: ...petroglyphes.
22/40: Harvesting taro roots
23/40: Music swap on Pitufa
24/40: Rainy-day idyll (note the baskets full of fruits and veggies in the background)
25/40: The village of Vaitahu
26/40: This is not in the Alps...
27/40: The villagers are busy before the Aranui 3 (a combined cargo/passenger ship) arrives with tourists.
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31/40: Felix is a famous tattoo artist.
32/40: The Aranui took the parking space just behind Pitufa.
33/40: The villagers export copra and noni fruits to Tahiti.
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