Tahiti is the largest island in French Polynesia, and has a population of 245,000.  Shaped like an upside down Maui, each side formed by separate volcanoes.  Beaches are black.  The philosophy is  not to worry .  Pape'ete is the capital, with an urban population of 136,771, or 27,000, depending on which portion.  Called a sleepy town.  I can one up that by saying town at sleep, for I made a walking tour, and virtually everything was closed at 2:30PM on a Saturday.    Close by is Faa'a International Airport. Le Marche is the town marketplace.  Of course it was closed when I walked by.  But that is because it opened from 5:30AM to 1PM.  A worthy stop would be the Botanical Garden/Gauguin Museum. Britisher Samuel Wallis discovered Tahiti in 1767.  Of course Captain Cook also landed, two years later. Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin, a French Post-Impressionist artist, spent the final decade of his life in French Polynesia, leaving behind his wife ( photo with wife Mette in Copenhagen ) a