Marquesas Islands

Marquesas Hotels

1.Nuku Hiva Keikahanui Pearl Lodge

2.Hiva Oa Hanakee Pearl Lodge

The Marquesas, or Henuna Enata ("Land of Men"), are seemingly lost at the end of the earth. Even now, some of the islands are virtually untouched since the era of European exploratoin. Their isloation from other lands has created an immense pride among the people and a fascinating and undiscovered culture. 1000-foot waterfalls cascade down sheer volcanic cliffs, and because the islands have no coral reefs or lagoons, the ocean crashes directly against the rocky coast indented with fjord-like bays.

Throughout the ages, the Marquesas have inspired painters, poets, singers and writers, such as Jacques Brel, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Loti, V. Segalen and H. Melville.

They have recorded in song and on canvas those now famous standards of beauty, such as the smiling faces of the children leaving school, mysterious women sitting on church pews, mute sculptors.

They have captured the dense forests, the majestic waterfalls, a horde of wild horses on a deserted plateau, violent and rocky coast, a bay which is a haven of peace, majestic and twisted peaks, a woman sculpting at night on the beach.

The Marquesas are a peak, a beach, a bay, horses, a sculptor, a tattoo, a tiki, a bird or a light a moment, a minute or a life.