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Paradise Found: Cruising the Pacific Islands Expedia® CruiseShipCenters® CRUISE2014 IDEA / 2015BOOK Dream Voyages® cruising pac f c +• North to Alaska • Cruising with the Family • Welcome aboard Oceania Riviera go with the f owl CRUISING THE RIVERS OF EUROPE PLAN YOUR NEXT CRUISE five fab things to do at sea | 2014 / 15 travel calendar | cruise reviews & more Oceania Riviera FALL 2014 www.cruiseshipcenters.com DreamVoyages #2 Fall 2014*.indd 68 21-07-14 8:35 AM paradise found JANICE AND GEORGE MUCALOV They may be specks in the vast blue Pacific, but the Polynesian islands pack a powerful punch. You can swim in Bora Bora’s blue lagoon, watch whales in Maui and chug potent kava with a village chief in Fiji. And their beaches are about RUISES as close to paradise as you can get. C AUGUIN G AUL P OURTESY C HOTO P 26 | Dream Voyages Fall 2014 DreamVoyages #2 Fall 2014*.indd 26 21-07-14 8:17 AM CRUISING THE PACIFIC ISLANDS LAMY A / RAME F ATER W K K HUTTERSTOC COMMONS S / IMEDIA K ESSOP WI PJ Picture paradise. Chances are it looks a lot like Hawaii and the South Pacific. Islands blessed with warm azure imaginable (from bananas to mangos) waters, sugar white beaches, rainbow-colored reefs and unique cultural experiences like fire-walking and growing wild, as well as massive 20-foot hula dancing. Even the names of these islands – Fiji, Bora Bora, Moorea, Kauai – conjure up images of a cannons left behind by the Americans after fantasy escape. The thing is, you can easily turn your Polynesian daydreams into reality with a cruise that sails WW II. On a ray feeding tour, we caressed the Pacific. More cruise lines have introduced voyages to these destinations. Several cruises even take you soft stingrays swirling about us as we knelt to two or more countries (like Hawaii and French Polynesia) on the same itinerary. We’ve been fortunate to in the lagoon. cruise Fiji, Tahiti and French Polynesia, and Hawaii – here’s our deck-chair report. Coral reefs around the islands teem with galaxies of rainbow-hued fish and exotic sea life, so snorkeling and diving romantic french polynesia are superb throughout. But Rangiroa is special. When conditions are right, EVER SINCE PAUL GAUGUIN painted Tahitian market with fresh fish, baskets of seashells divers and snorkelers can shoot through a landscapes with raven-haired beauties, and carved wooden warriors on display. If pass between the ocean and lagoon in a French Polynesia has seduced visitors with you plan to buy black pearls on your cruise, surge of rushing water – and watch sharks Facing page: its turquoise lagoons and islands blooming you’ll want to stop at the Robert Wan Pearl (harmless to humans) devour hapless fish The cruiseship m/s Paul with hibiscus. The 118-island nation invented Museum to learn about the country’s pearl washed in with the tide. For more Gauguin in a tropical lagoon in Bora Bora, deluxe overwater bungalows – which perch industry. But for that true paradise feeling, heart-pounding fun, Moorea has a great French Polynesia. on stilts over the sea. Try to stay in one if you you need to visit the less-developed islands. hike up to Belvedere Lookout Point. This page can. But cruising is often the most affordable Take Bora Bora. Author James Michener Raiatea is where we kayaked the (clockwise from top): way to see this region. As these islands dubbed it “the most beautiful island in the peaceful Faaroa River. We paddled through Rangiroa offers spectacular snorkeling. ooze romance, cruises concentrating on world.” Who can disagree? Craggy Mount a sea of yellow hibiscus, fallen from the lacy RUISES C Luxury overwater French Polynesia (Windstar Cruises and Otemanu, crowned by creamy clouds, canopy of foliage above, past mangroves, bungalows perch in AUGUIN Paul Gauguin Cruises) are couple-oriented. towers over the island center, while a ring bamboo groves and giant ferns. G the clear blue waters AUL P of Bora Bora. The starting point is typically the port of palm-studded, white-fringed motus or And the beaches? Well, you need Arearea city of Papeete on the main island of Tahiti islets encircles Bora Bora’s popsicle-blue only shake your towel out on any number OURTESY Paul Gauguin, 1892, C (where more than 60 per cent of the country’s lagoon. On a jeep excursion – bone-jarring of unspoiled white-sand motus to feel life oil on canvas, HOTO P Musée d’Orsay, Paris. people live). We checked out the lively but thrilling – we saw every tropical fruit as dreamy as it gets. Dream Voyages Fall 2014 | 27 DreamVoyages #2 Fall 2014*.indd 27 21-07-14 8:19 AM CRUISING THE PACIFIC ISLANDS LAMY / A / LAMY / A / EEBLES P ALL W OUGLAS AVID D D cast away in fiji DID WE WANT A SWIG of kava from the communal half-coconut shell? Seated on woven mats, we had just watched Fijian villagers in grass skirts pound kava (a pepper plant root), still covered with dirt. Mixing the powder with water, they made Fiji’s potent traditional beverage, known to put unsuspecting tourists to sleep. Hmmm. LAMY We were attending a welcome A / This page (clockwise from above): ceremony at a remote Yasawa Island village RAHAM G Tropical resort in in Fiji. It’s a cultural highlight of a cruise IM T Fiji’s Mamanuca with Blue Lagoon Cruises. Operating since Islands. 1950, the small Fijian cruise company offers South Pacific (such as some Princess and Hand carved Off the west coast, Denarau Island is a Tiki statues. comfortable barefoot-and-cutoffs cruises Celebrity ships). The Fiji Museum there shopping and resort hub connected by Fijian villagers to unspoiled Fijian islands. Think beach contains exhibits from Fiji’s cannibalistic bridge to Viti Levu. Its picturesque port and prepare the potent barbecues, swimming, snorkeling and past. You can see the boots of an marina bustles with cafés, boutiques, Kava drink at a traditional welcome visiting a local Fijian village. But many unfortunate missionary who was killed restaurants and adventure tour offices. ceremony. villages throughout Fiji welcome you and eaten, as well as the rudder from Sailboats for day cruises to the nearby Facing page: with the kava ceremony – and it’s part of Captain Bligh’s HMS Bounty (where the Mamanuca Islands also take off from Port Snorkeling in Blue Lagoon, Sawa-i-Lau, what makes visiting Fiji special. legendary mutiny occurred). At Pacific Denarau. With white sand beaches and Yasawa islands, Fiji. Viti Levu is the main island, home to Harbour, an hour drive away, you can watch coral reefs thriving with candy-colored fish, The 1980 movie Suva. This colonial capital is a popular Fijian the famous firewalkers tread barefoot the Mamanucas are perfect for living out Blue Lagoon was filmed here. port-of-call for bigger vessels cruising the on red-hot coals at the Arts Village. your Robinson Crusoe fantasies for a day. 28 | Dream Voyages Fall 2014 DreamVoyages #2 Fall 2014*.indd 28 21-07-14 8:25 AM DreamVoyages #2 Fall2014*.indd 29 LOOK DIE BILDAGENTUR DER FOTOGRAFEN GMBH / ALAMY D ream Voyages ream Fall 2014 Fall 21-07-14 8:25AM | 29 K K HUTTERSTOC / S / HOTOGRAPHY P IELDS F ARAH S 30 | Dream Voyages Fall 2014 DreamVoyages #2 Fall 2014*.indd 30 21-07-14 8:26 AM CRUISING THE PACIFIC ISLANDS K SHUTTERSTOC / / KOLB EBORAH D K LAMY / A / SHUTTERSTOC / HLERS E ARIDAV HAD M C say aloha to hawaii DROOL-WORTHY SHOPPING at Waikiki. Over on the Big Island of Hawaii, a visit Whale watching. Golfing on oceanview to Volcanoes National Park is a must. Stand- LINE championship fairways. Festive luaus with ing at the rim of the Kilauea Caldera, we saw CRUISE hula dancers. And an incredible live volcano. clouds of smoke and steam spewing out of Say aloha to Hawaii! More cosmopolitan the enormous (over two miles in diameter) ORWEGIAN and urbanized than Fiji and French Polynesia, grey-black depression. The moon-like N the Hawaiian islands have something for landscape constantly changes because the COURTESY everyone. There are more fun things for volcano is active, so you might see red lava HOTO kids to do too, so Hawaii is a better option flowing when you visit. Kids (and adults) like P for a family cruise (try Norwegian, Princess walking through the cool dark tunnel of the and Royal Caribbean). Thurston Lava Tube – it feels like you’re inside their barnacle-covered backs on a whale Facing page: Hawaii cruises often start or end in the belly of some giant prehistoric monster. watching tour – they may even breach just K auai’s spectacular Na Pali coast. Honolulu, the state capital on Oahu. The top Blossoming with bougainvillea and feet away from you! Some boats have This page (clockwise attraction – and most poignant – is Pearl birds-of-paradise, Kauai is nicknamed the hydrophones so you can listen to their from top left): Harbor, where a film shows the 1941 attack “garden isle.” And it’s the place for a helicop- whale songs too. Molten volcanic lava at Hawaii Volcanoes K K and a boat trip takes you to the wreck of the ter ride to view the spectacular Na Pali coast These islands also have dream courses National Park. USS Arizona battleship. Fancy catching a and the jungle scenery where King Kong for golfers (the PGA and LPGA host many Hawaiian girl HUTTERSTOC wave instead? The “Waikiki Beach Boys” and Jurassic Park were filmed (choose a “no wearing a lei. / S / events here), Hawaiian luaus (try the pit- Honolulu’s Waikiki introduced surfing to the world back in the doors” chopper for thrills and great pics).
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