Views from the passenger seat of an SUV transported me to a world far from the traffic and concrete of Los Angeles. On an extraordinary road tour around Tahiti’s coastline, it was clear that the skyscrapers here are not manufactured but are sacred ancient mountain peaks.
Tahiti is the largest island in French Polynesia, a collection of five archipelagos in the South Pacific Ocean below the equator. It is barely a speck on the map, but its 118 islands and atolls, including the water, make it the size of Europe.
