Nuku Hiva is the main island in the northern archipelago with the town of Taiohae serving as the administrative and economic centre. It is best known for its 550 metre Ahuii waterfall in the Hakaui Valley.
The 2,100 inhabitants live in Taiohae, Taipivai, Hatiheu, Aakapa, Pua Houmi, Anaho and Hakaui, where they work for the government, the community, Catholic church or school system or for themselves - chopping copra high in the mountains, fishing, raising cattle and other livestock, or sculpting bowls, platters, Marquesan ceremonial clubs, tiki's and ukuleles.
Taiohae is a pleasant village bordering the sea. It is the administrative, economic, educational and health center of the Marquises Islands. Here are the French and Territorial administrators, the government buildings, gendarmerie, post office, general hospital, town hall, Air Tahiti office, banks, schools, well-stocked stores and shops.
Sundays and holidays are just as busy as any work day, when the villagers drive back and forth along the seafront road in their 4-wheel drive vehicles, calling out to their friends, and stopping to join the on going game of petanque or French bowls, played under a flowering flamboyant tree in front of the town hall. Nearby the women sit under a shelter and win money playing bingo."
credit: cosmopolis.ru, pacificislandtravel.com
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