konazotravels's video: Explore picturesque NUKU HIVA Marquesas Islands by 4x4

Join us as we explore the rugged and picturesque island of NUKA HIVA by 4x4. Highlights of our 6 hr tour include: HOOME beach, exploring the ruins at KAMUIHEI and MAIKUKU; sights of TOOVIE CASCADE; town of HATIHEU in the northeast; AKAPA overlook; drive thru TAIPIVAL VALLEY; TAPIVAL beach; TAPIVAL and CONTROLLER BAY overlooks, before heading back to town of TAIOHE. Nuku Hiva is the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, and is therefore an overseas country of France in the Pacific Ocean. It was formerly also known as Île Marchand and Madison Island. Herman Melville wrote his book Typee based on his experiences in the Taipivai valley in the eastern part of Nuku Hiva. Robert Louis Stevenson's first landfall on his voyage on the Casco was at Hatihe'u, on the north side of the island, in 1888 Western Nuku Hiva is characterized by a steep but fairly regular coastline, indented occasionally by small bays leading to deep valleys, which lead into the interior. There are no villages on this side. The coastline of the eastern part of the island has few places to land by sea and takes the brunt of the ocean swells. The north, on the other hand, is indented by deep bays, the largest of which are Anahō and Hatihe'u. 'A'akapa bay is not as large but has a village of the same name. The south has fewer bays, among which those of Taioha'e, Taipivai, Ho'oumi, Hakaui (the last three are parts of the larger Baie du Contrôleur), and the bays of Hakau'i and Hakatea, both accessed by the same narrow entrance. Produced by konazoravels with CyberLink PowerDirector 16. Filmed October 2018.