This full-day Jeep safari takes you through Papeete’s dense rainforest by 4WD to the interior of the French Polynesian island. Go off the beaten path of this Tahitian paradise, visiting Mount Marau, Arahoho Blowhole, and the lush Cascades of Faarumai with an informative local guide. You’ll experience the majestic beauty surrounding Papeete, topped by a refreshing waterfall swim! Hotel pickup and drop-off are included.
Highlights
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Papeete Port / Accomodation (Google Map)
8am-4pm
Discover the natural wonders of Tahiti on this inner-island safari tour by 4WD vehicle. After your guide picks you up from your hotel in downtown Papeete or at the pier, hop into the Jeep for a thrilling ride — traversing rough roads best accessed by a 4×4 vehicle. Make your first stop at Mount Marau, a former 19th-century French fortress. Treat yourself to a gorgeous vista of the lush, rainforest-clad Punaruu Valley and snap photos of the island’s highest peaks: Orohena, Aoraki, Tetufera and Team. Your tour continues to the Arahoho Blowhole, an unmarked roadside attraction created over eons by liquid lava when battering surf undercut the basalt shoreline and eroded a tunnel-like passageway.
When large waves crash into the rocks, watch in awe as a geyser-like plume of seawater shoots into the air and sprays onlookers. Check out the local surfers and the black-sand beach before re-boarding the Jeep.
You’ll enter the Faaurumai Valley near Tahiti’s north coast to visit the three waterfalls of the Cascades of Faarumai — nestled in the nearly impenetrable rainforest of Hutu and maple trees. It’s an easy 5-minute walk to Vaimahutu Falls, which plunges 100 feet (30 meters) into a crystal-clear pool below.
Follow your guide along a 20-minute rainforest walk to reach the other two cascades, Haamaremare It and Haamaremare Rahi, and spend time at the final waterfall with a refreshing swim if you’d like. Back in your 4WD vehicle, make the return trip to Papeete, where your full-day tour ends.
