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		<title>King Tamatoa Tahiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davids</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fast ferry King Tamatoa will go into service between Tahiti and Bora Bora on Friday, March 5, 2010. Operated by the shipping company Raromatai Ferry, this vessel will run twice a week.]]></description>
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		<title>Spirit of Harmony Fiji</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davids</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tonga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patterson Brothers Shipping is one of the oldest transportation companies in Fiji, founded by Levuka planter Reg Patterson and his brother just after World War I. Since 2007 Patterson Brothers has been using the 385-passenger car ferry Spirit of Harmony on its routes.]]></description>
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		<title>Novotel Drops French Polynesia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davids</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[French Polynesia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The French tour operator Nouvelles Frontieres has sold its two Novotel resorts in French Polynesia. Beginning in 2010, Accor will no longer manage the Novotel Rangiroa Lagoon Resort and the Novotel Bora Bora Beach Resort. The Novotel Rangiroa will become the Maitai Rangiroa, while the Novotel Bora Bora Beach Resort will trade under the name Antipodes Club Resort Bora Bora.]]></description>
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		<title>Jocelyne Henua Enana Tours</title>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/jocelyne-henua-enana-tours</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davids</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[French Polynesia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia are one of the remotest island groups of the South Pacific. Jocelyne Henua Enana Tours in Taiohae on Nuku Hiva island can book accommodations and tours on Nuku Hiva and Hiva Oa, with extensions to Ua Huka and Ua Pou. Boat tours to bays on the south side of Nuku Hiva provide a chance to see dolphins.]]></description>
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		<title>Metropolis Nightclub Tahiti</title>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/metropolis-nightclub-tahiti</link>
		<comments>http://blog.southpacific.org/metropolis-nightclub-tahiti#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davids</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[French Polynesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entertainment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Metropolis Nightclub on boulevard Pomare opposite the Moorea ferry wharf is currently Papeete’s top nightspot. Here you can catch a glimpse of the action late one Friday or Saturday night as strobe lights flash and the crowd gyrates on the packed dance floor.]]></description>
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		<title>Changes in French Polynesia</title>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/changes-in-french-polynesia</link>
		<comments>http://blog.southpacific.org/changes-in-french-polynesia#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davids</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[French Polynesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m currently updating my guidebook Moon Tahiti for publication late next year. A surprising number of Papeete hotels have closed, and the declining dollar, rising prices, and the credit card blues have made packaged tourists from the United States an endangered species in French Polynesia.]]></description>
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		<title>Seasons Greetings 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/seasons-greetings-2009</link>
		<comments>http://blog.southpacific.org/seasons-greetings-2009#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davids</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Seasons Greetings 2009]]></description>
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		<title>New Flights to Fiji</title>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/new-flights-to-fiji</link>
		<comments>http://blog.southpacific.org/new-flights-to-fiji#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davids</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airlines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fiji is experiencing an upswing in tourism as new flights into Nadi proliferate. In September 2009 Fiji received 54,981 visitors, an increase of 4.5 percent over September 2008. ]]></description>
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		<title>Maritime Terminal Papeete Tahiti</title>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/maritime-terminal-papeete-tahiti</link>
		<comments>http://blog.southpacific.org/maritime-terminal-papeete-tahiti#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davids</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[French Polynesia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Construction has begun on a new Gare Maritime on the Quai de Moorea in downtown Papeete, Tahiti. Papeete is the third-largest port under the French flag (after Calais and Cherbourg) and a proper Maritime Terminal has been badly needed.]]></description>
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		<title>Laurent Pichot on Moorea</title>
		<link>http://blog.southpacific.org/laurent-pichot-on-moorea</link>
		<comments>http://blog.southpacific.org/laurent-pichot-on-moorea#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davids</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[French Polynesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travelers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During my recent trip to French Polynesia I met French blogger Laurent Pichot who also happened to be staying at Moorea Camping. Pichot is currently on leave from his job as an account manager with Google France in Paris and traveling around the world. ]]></description>
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