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The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
A full-day 4x4 crossing of Hiva Oa's spine to Puamau, home to the largest tiki in French Polynesia and the mysterious Smiling Tiki. Led by a Marquesan guide fluent in island oral history.
A quiet, guided walk up to the hilltop cemetery where Paul Gauguin and Jacques Brel are buried, timed for the soft late-afternoon light over Atuona Bay.
A focused, guide-led visit to the small museum tracing Gauguin's final, chaotic years on Hiva Oa, timed to avoid the mid-morning cruise crowd.
A half-day horseback ride through the Taaoa valley to a restored marae and ancient petroglyph field, guided by a Marquesan horseman.
A private boat trip along Hiva Oa's dramatic north coast to snorkel with resident manta rays in clear water off a remote bay, since Atuona itself has no swimmable beach.
A slow morning walk through Atuona's small artisan market, ending with a private studio visit to a Marquesan woodcarver working in the island's traditional tiki style.
You know what to do on the day. Here is the trip it belongs to — each one opens as a whole plan, not a list: where to fly in, every port, what it runs.
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