Word: maupiti
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Having given up on finding a good beach, we decided to flee the tourist hordes and check out one of the smaller, more remote islands. After several days' journey on slow-moving ferries and jittery prop planes, we arrived at the tiny island of Maupiti...
...Maupiti is very quiet. In fact, it's uncannily quiet. It is possible to walk for an hour or more along the narrow dirt road that runs along the coastline without hearing any sound other than the slow lap of waves on the rocks. (No beaches, of course...
...Maupiti is also very isolated. Only four other foreigners--a pair of Canadian college students and a German couple--came to the island the entire time we were there. We all stayed at Maupiti's only hotel, "Mama Roro's," which is run by a little old Tahitian woman called Mama Roro...
There actually was a cute little pig on Maupiti. It lived in a pen behind Mama Roro's, and on the third day we were there it was served for dinner in honor of a son's wedding. Accompanied by a delicious sweet squash dish, it was the best meal I have ever eaten in my entire life...
Last week, directly after Foreign Minister Bidault's speech, the Government took another step toward the new Union. Upon some 20,000 creamy, copra-gathering South Sea Islanders, inhabitants of French Raïatea, Tahaa, Huahine, Bora-Bora, Maupiti, Mopelia, Rurutu and Rimatara, it bestowed French citizenship...
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