Pitufa.at

Now that we’ve basically finished the jobs on Pitufa we’ve got time again to enjoy ‘our’ little island. Recently tourist groups from the two pensions on Mangareva have started visiting Taravai and last week our neighbour Herve led some up to the peak behind the village. As there’s no paths into the mountains we asked him for directions yesterday and started hiking up the same mountain. Of course we lost the track he’d made soon, but the basic direction (up!) was clear and we found a crisscross of little paths–as these are made by and for goats they were helpful, but sometimes not quite high enough for human hikers. After an hour of crawling under branches, climbing over rocks and making tunnels through the reed we reached the ridge of the mountain and were rewarded with a wonderful view all over the island and most of the archipelago. When we sat down for a picknick of bananas some curious goats came along, apparently we were sitting right on their highway