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French Polynesia Picture by Jacek Pałkiewicz
Travel story: Archipelago Society Islands (French Polynesia) - 2003

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Yet Unlost Paradise

The myth of Polynesia, the Mecca of the elitist tourism, that fascinated Cook, Wallis or Bougainville in the 18th century, enchanted me in the mid seventies. I have been there several times since then and each time I go back home with strange feelings, with a sensation that I arrived there too late.

Once I was struck by the lack of spontaneity of the local people, another time by the absence of „vaataias”, pliable... More

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