Adventure.com - "This photographer took a life-affirming cargo ship cruise through the Marquesas Islands"

Aranui

23/01/2025

Adventure.com published an article about the Aranui 5 and the Marquesas islands

In January 2025, Adventure.com published an article about the Aranui 5, written by Nori Jemil. She praises the Aranui,with so few tourists coming to the Marquesas, a world away from a cruise liner docking at a classic port city—it’s international cruising meets local delivery and ferry service and with most of the crew also hailing from nearby isles, there’s a sense that we’re coming home. Read the full article here.

 

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"With so few tourists coming to the Marquesas, the Aranui is a world away from a cruise liner docking at a classic port city—it’s international cruising meets local delivery and ferry service. And with most of the crew also hailing from nearby isles, there’s a sense that we’re coming home.

It’s little wonder French Polynesians refer to the ship as the ‘seventh Marquesan island’, jumping on at different points to join the Aranui band, or heading to Papeete with their artisanal products, decked out in heady floral tributes.."

 

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