We woke up this morning to a wonderous site. They have finished repairing the infinity pool with the swim up bar and are filling it with water. Hopefully, it will be ready for use by the afternoon or tomorrow at the latest.
We decided
to go into Papeete to do the obligatory souvenir shopping. After spending the afternoon
there, I can in all honesty say that this is one of my least favourite cities I have
ever visited.
The
shopping area is a busy concrete jungle that holds the oppressive heat in with little
or no breeze.
The tourist
maps bear no relation to the actual street layout and the scale of the maps are
a joke. You would have better luck winning the lottery than finding a street
sign at a corner.
Store hours
are totally random. The market closes at 2pm instead of the advertised time of
3pm. Other stores close for lunch and reopen when they feel like it. Entrances
to shopping concourses are carefully camouflaged to avoid detection. After
wasting an hour looking for the black pearl market, we found that it was closing
in five minutes after we found it. This was an hour earlier than advertised.
Most
restaurant close in the middle of the afternoon. If they do remain open, they may
or may not serve food. At least the beer in the one café we found was cold.
I was very
glad to get back to the hotel and a sense of sanity.
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