Tikehau - Home to a
Breathtaking Lagoon
Tikehau
Days evolve quietly on Tikehau. From the sky, this graceful atoll, a 55-minute flight from the kinetic bustle of Papeete in Tahiti, looks like a crown of white and pink-sand beaches shimmering around the Tikehau Atoll lagoon making it almost too breathtaking to be true. Only about 500 Tahitians call this tranquil world home, generations of fishermen whose lives revolve around the sea. And, it’s a life of both peace and plenty.
About Tikehau
529
POPULATION
8 / 20
SQ. MI. / KM²
MOTU TUHERAHERA
ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER
55 MIN
FLIGHT TIME FROM TAHITI
Tikehau Travel Guide
Top Reasons to Stay in Tikehau
A Lagoon That Keeps its Promises
This oval shaped lagoon formed by a series of motu featuring white and pink sand beaches is a genuine natural pool opening to a small pass called Tuheiva. Divers are consistently enthralled by the amazing marine life where eagle rays, schools of barracudas and tuna, grey reef sharks, marine turtles and dolphins like to play. For those in search of relaxation in The Islands of Tahiti, Tikehau’s untouched sandy beaches lying by the pure and warm emerald lagoon will definitely fill their expectations.
Tikehau’s Natural Curiosities
Explore Tuherahera village and the superb desert atoll’s beaches, see the impressive coral remnants lying on the beach on the South coast, forming a natural wall. You will travel back in time discovering the legend of Hina’s bell closely linked to this place. On the motu, pink sand beaches, a nature’s wonder, await.
Tikehau – A Particularly Fishy Atoll (In a Good Way!)
Millions of fish live in the untouched transparent world of the Tikehau atoll. The volume of fish is so much that Jacques Cousteau’s research crew dubbed it “the most fish abundant Tuamotu atoll.”
