Tout sur : Polynesia

Sailboat charter became popular in the 1980s, and today, catamarans clearly dominate the market, certainly in tropical regions.

I’m taking you right into the middle of the largest of oceans: to the north there’s American Samoa, to the east the Cook Islands, to the west Tonga, and a little further away Fiji... The rocky coastlines of this island appear to have been carved out over thousands of years by the furious force of the ocean. The South Pacific’s breakers pound away at Niue, a small island of just 100 square miles (260 km2). This is one of the smallest countries in the world, with a population of just 1,500. Niue, a self-governing country in free association with New Zealand, is the least populated country in the world after the Vatican.