A trip to French Polynesia will cure what ails you. Just ask Marlon Brando. He called Tetiaroa — the island that stole his heart — “the tincture of the South Seas.”
Sometimes simply referred to as “Tahiti” for its largest island, French Polynesia — a five-archipelago, 118-island, semi-autonomous French territory — mottles the South Pacific like so many strewn pearls. Overall, it stretches across an area the size of Western Europe. Each coral-rimmed islet, big or small, boasts the sort of eye-popping scenery and variety that can barely be imagined.