By Athena Lucero If it's July, it's Heiva Festival month in Tahiti, a stunning celebration of ancient Polynesian culture, ...

The fast, hip-shaking dance of Tahiti is taking off around the world, with thousands of women taking classes and competing Wearing intricate costumes made of plants and adorned with tropical flowers, ...

"You have to feel this place. See it: Open your eyes," says Tumi Brando as we skim across the joltingly blue lagoon of Tetiaroa, her grandfather Marlon's private atoll in French Polynesia. Tumi grew ...

Over a lazy Susan piled with plates of steamed black bean parrotfish, Tahitian chow mein, and duck paired with a thick coconut milk for dunking, Roland Sam makes a bold claim: “Tahitian-Chinese food ...

Tahitian pearls are a popular buy for travelers to the South Pacific, but the array of options can be confusing to sort out. A frequent pearl-buyer offers shoppers some top tips. Pearls are sold ...

(Click through all the photos in the above gallery for more Tahitian action.) For the last 30 years, the pages of Marlin have documented the finest marlin fishing in the most virgin waters on the ...

The Tate’s “Gauguin” painting Tahitians has been downgraded as a fake. It is excluded from the authoritative catalogue raisonné of Gauguin’s work, which has just been published by the New York-based ...

The origin of the Tahitian vanilla orchid has long eluded botanists. The orchid is found to exist only in cultivation; natural, wild populations have never been encountered. Now, a team of ...