Garbage stench in the island paradise.

Secluded beaches, spectacular underwater worlds - and problems with the environment: The luxury tourism on islands such as South Seas Tahiti, Bora Bora or Moorea is a million business. And at risk of what the winter flight goals so unique.
  Papeete - If they do not so far away would be the dream islands of French Polynesia. Tahiti, Bora Bora, Rangiroa - that sounds like pure South Seas, after lascivious dances in Baströckchen and white sand under palm trees. And that is exactly what awaits the travelers there - but only once the long journey will cope.
Because the trip to paradise from Germany takes about 26 hours, really can not be further away on holiday fly. But the goal is worthwhile, you can scuba diving and snorkeling, hiking and trekking - or just sunbathe.
Alphonse bears no Baströckchen, but a muscular upper body to show. The 42-year-old joins Tahiti in dance shows. During the day he chauffeured tourists in the jeep on his home island. It feeds it to a freshwater fish with a muränenähnlichen hand - "a Io, which is doing nothing."
At the next stop at the waterfall, he jumps into the elegantly cool water and then demonstrated how Silberfarn pattern on its dark skin leaves. What it looks like stocking top, with his pale wants guests not quite work. Since then, however great comfort ginger blossoms, which he hit with strong separates from the plant.
Overnight on wooden planks
While the female guests slowly succumb Alphonse South Pacific charm - dark eyes, a charming smile - calling the men in view of the wooded hills and trails Action: Trekking in Tahiti, that would be it. "It is also very 'in'," said Alphonse. The Hiker stay in simple straw huts on stilts in the shadow of bread fruit trees.
HOLIDAY ISLAND-RANKING Find your dream island: Click on the picture to the assessments of 111 islands to look after a glance at the wooden boards on which the sleeping bag is rolled out, cool the enthusiasm from a little while. "But it is super booked," asserts Alphonse. Last week was a first group of 20 Japanese have been there. Regardless, the luxury resort on Wassersaum but now attracts more.
Tahiti is the central island in the South Seas, in the capital Papeete to land the aircraft from all over the world. From here take the tourists to other islands of the Society Islands as Huahine, Tahaa, Bora Bora, Raiatea and Moorea. The four other archipelagos, which include French Polynesia, the Tuamotus, the Marquesas, the Austral and Gambierinseln. The individual islands are often several hours' flight away from each other - tiny points in a desert of water, surrounded by reefs, where the waves break.
The islands in the South look very different. Some high-rise from the sea and beaches with black volcanic sand, the steep cliffs are densely covered. Others are flat islands, which were made from the sea. Their water breaks in all blue and green tones of white coral sand beaches.
Moorea is one of the dark islands. Here in 1788 the infamous Captain William Bligh of HMS Bounty "anchors have thrown. The famous film "Mutiny on the Bounty" with Marlon Brando in the role of insurgent first officer Fletcher Christian has been shot in Tahiti.
Moorea is also famous for its royal pineapples, as Maupiti for its melons. The vanilla comes mainly from Tahaa and Raiatea, Rangiroa of the wine. In turn, Tahiti is vegetables grown in the south, where the ground is more fertile than in the mountains. On Sunday morning at 4 clock, the vegetable market in Papeete open. At 9 clock is the business, and the city is quiet Sunday.
Fruits and fish in abundance
Ultimately, most people live in French Polynesia by the tourists. Around 265,000 people are on about 130 islands in the home. The region was in the 18th Century by the Europeans discovered: 1722 landed the Dutchman Jacob Roggeveen on Bora Bora, then anchored the 1767 British sailor Samuel Wallis against Tahiti. And 1768 followed the sailor and scientist Louis Antoine de Bougainville.
Bligh with the "Bounty" So it was late. The first Christian missionaries came later: 1797 they landed on Tahiti and banned the first aufreizenden dancing and tattoos. Their work was very successful: 90 percent of the Polynesians are now Christians. Only tattoos are now once again called for.
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This is one laudable, but it makes the two sides of the South Seas clear: the locals appreciate the nature, but it is also the source of their money. And since the device ecology ever from sight.
Also on Bora Bora that happen, almost ten years. Since they came one day no more: the mantas. Every day, they had until then, at the reef with Fischbröckchen can feed and stroke. Then began in the vicinity of the construction of two luxury hotels. Concrete piers for the famous over-water bungalows were in the lagoon ground, and the elegant marine animals disappeared. Only last summer, they were back to the old body sighted. Bora Bora has also become a major water treatment plant - it was the dirty water untreated into the sea has been drained.