Situated in more than 1 600 km in the South of Tahiti, Mangareva is the biggest and most inhabited with 14 islands which compose the archipelago of Gambier.

Little away from the traditional tourist roads  because of its estrangement from Tahiti, Mangareva offers however a mixture of mystery and history which is widely worth seeing. The  extraordinaries colors of the lagoon , the landscape growing green thanks to the tropical climate of the island make of Mangareva a natural island offering fruit trees and forest of ferns.

Real place of history, the island the most distant from Tahiti opens you its treasures; as well of the ancestral Polynesian culture as the Christian era. Its numerous religious buildings dating the XIXeme century.

Indeed the island counts more than hundred buildings the most impressive of which remain the cathedral Saint Michel built in blocks of coral, with an altar decorated with pearls and with mother-of-pearl situated in the village of Rikitea.

The nautical activities such as the deep-sea fishing or the lagonnary fishing are very practised on island. You can also leave for excursion to the discovery of mounts Duff and Mokoto. Once arrived on these summits, you will have an extraordinary panorama on the surrounding motu, the beaches and the pearl farms on the lagoon.

Lagoons are exploited for centuries to them pearl and still today  the most famous pearl farms are present to Mangareva and represent the main resources of the archipelago of Gambier.

The lagoons of Mangareva are considered as etre more convenient to offer quality pearls.