Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adventurous travelers can summit Mount Otemanu in Bora Bora, one of 118 islands and atolls in French Polynesia. Photograph by ...

This is the latest in our series on underrated destinations, It’s Still a Big World. Nothing will ruin a vacation quite like crowds. Whether it’s beaches and bars or museums and mountaintops, large ...

Last August, Sonya Moore ticked French Polynesia off her travel bucket list. Despite a lot of planning before the trip, looking back, there are a few things she'd have done differently. She would have ...

It’s a cloudless morning and the sun is shining brightly off the coast of French Polynesia’s capital and largest city, Papeete, enhancing the water’s already vibrant shades of blue. Though just meters ...

Sought-after Bora Bora limits visitor numbers to protect environment while rest of French Polynesia pushes for more tourists Bora Bora is close to paradise. The small island is part of French ...

I didn’t know it was possible to cry underwater. It was one of the many unexpected experiences French Polynesia left me with. Before the male humpback searching for a mate appeared, I heard the ...

Researchers claim to have settled question of whether there was contact between islanders and Americas with construction of tuber’s ‘family tree’ The sweet potato is ubiquitous enough to seem almost ...

RAROTONGA – In a far flung corner of the South Pacific a secessionist movement is stirring with its protagonists preparing for a major battle looming half a world away. And if Oscar Manutahi Temaru ...