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New 2021 itineraries for Tahiti’s Aranui 5New 2021 itineraries for Tahiti’s Aranui 5

The custom-built passenger-freighter Aranui 5, which made her maiden voyage from Papeete in December 2015 to coincide with the Marquesas Art Festival, will visit Fatu Hiva for the biennial Art & Culture Festival in December 2021.

Helen Hutcheon, Australasia correspondent

August 8, 2019

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This is a highlight of Aranui 5’s 2021 programme, which also includes a maiden voyage to the Cook Islands, an expanded Pitcairn itinerary and its first dedicated Society Islands cruise.

Cook Islands

Aranui Cruises makes its first visit to the Cook Islands on a 13-day round-trip from Papeete on September 4, 2021, sailing past Pointe Venus en route to Aitutaki and Rarotonga, returning via Rurutu, Rapa and Raivave in the Australs and the Tuamotu atoll Anaa.

The revamped cruise to the Tuamotu, Gambier and Pitcairn Islands includes a new Tuamotu atoll — Hikueru, and an overnight in Adamstown as well as a maiden visit to Pitcairn’s Oneo Island.

The 12-day Society and Tuamotu voyage departs Papeete on May 8, 2021, and includes calls at Rangiroa, Fakarava and Makatea in the Tuamotus and the Society Islands’ Raiatea, Tahaa, Maupiti, Huahine, Moorea and Bora Bora.

Decades since Makatea

When Aranui 5 anchors at Makatea on May 11, 2021, it will be almost 50 years since the company’s last visit as a local inter-island trader during the island’s phosphate boom.

Most of Aranui Cruises’ 2021 departures feature its popular 13-day round-trip from Papeete to the Marquesas Islands.

As previously reported, there is no Aranui 4 as the number is considered unlucky by the Tahitian-Chinese owners.

About the Author

Helen Hutcheon

Australasia correspondent

Helen Hutcheon did her cadetship on a shipping magazine and worked in P&O’s Sydney office for seven years as a public relations journalist.

For 19 years she was deputy editor of Travel Week, which was Australia’s leading trade newspaper that covered major local and international industry events.

In 2008 the late legendary Rama Rebbapragada presented her with an award from Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd ‘in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the cruising industry.’

In 2010 she won the Neil Frazer Award for ‘outstanding contribution to the cruise industry,’ elevating her to CLIA Australasia’s hall of fame.

She has been the Australasia correspondent for Seatrade Cruise Review since 1997 and for Seatrade Insider (now Seatrade Cruise News) since its launch in 2000.

 

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