Comment on YSK: If you’re ever planning to visit French Polynesia, consider choosing Maupiti over Bora Bora.

QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• quivivraverra@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Definitely, but Maupiti is the island which provides the most similar experience to Bora Bora specifically. They’re close to each other and have had strong historical cultural links. For example, if someone was more into lush vegetation, mountainous, cultural stuff, I’d recommend Huahine. Tahaa has the vanilla and pearls. Etc. Different islands have different things going for them.

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  • Danitos@reddthat.com ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    This may be a dumb questions, but are there mosquitoes in the vegetation zones in islands in the middle of the ocean like Huahine?

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    • quivivraverra@jlai.lu ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      The islands do have mosquitoes; their peak is during the wet season (December-March) + dawn/dusk.

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    • Manitobruh@lemmy.ca ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      There are mosquitoes most definitely. www.mosquito-forecast.org/en/forecast/…/maupiti

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