Fatu Hiva Travel Information

Fatu Hiva Information

Fatu Hiva is an extreme island: the most southern, the wettest, the lushest, the most remote and the most untouched of the Marquesas. The island is made of two volcanoes joined together with extreme geography doused in sunshine and the rhythmic gait of horses running wild. Cut off from the world, sheltered by high cliffs which border open, green spaces descending to the ocean, the two peaceful villages of Omoa and Hanavave are linked by just one road that can be taken by 4x4, horse or by foot.

The eleven mile road to the magnificent “Bay of Virgins”, so called because the contours of surrounding landscape take on feminine shapes is a sight to behold for any traveller. The Center of Marquesan arts, the island of “tapa” is the craftsmen's domain where tree bark drawings inspired by ancient tattoos are produced.