With the launch of Star Breeze in French Polynesia, Windstar Cruises is rolling out new itineraries that will take travelers to the Marquesas Islands. This week, the 312-guest Star Breeze replaced the ...

Aranui Cruises adds an exciting new ship to its fleet, sailing the untouched Austral Islands with its maiden voyage scheduled for March 2027. SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- For over ...

The Aranui 5 is a passenger-freighter vessel that makes 14-day voyages between Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. James D. Morgan/Getty Images Born on the 40-square-mile island of Ua Pou in the ...

Aranui Cruises is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year with entertainment, gifts for passengers and other festivities. The company’s ship, the Aranui 5, is part cruise ship, part freighter.

In 2018, I traveled solo to the French Polynesian islands. By day I surfed, snorkeled, sailed, and swam, stopping only to sleep in an over-the-water bungalow on stilts. On my final night, I lay ...

Wearing choker necklaces made of boar tusks, traditionally tattooed Marquesan men fiercely grunt performing the “Pig Dance” alongside a hallowed banyan tree where cannibals buried skulls of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - It was going well. The sailors took their 40-foot yawl J. Henry through the Panama Canal, turned south and prepared for a long Pacific crossing to the Marquesas Islands in ...