Last Thursday morning, at around 7am Tahiti time, an amazing thing happened: The Olympic flame arrived in Teahupoo. It will now travel 12,000 miles to the other side of the planet in its now famous ...

The surf at the Tokyo Olympics was unremarkable at best, with conditions that could be described as unpredictable slosh. It was nearly impossible for competitors to show the kind of awe-inspiring ...

Photography by Gaetan Charlin, Leah Hahn, Anuanua Lucas, and Marcus Paladino. There’s been a lot of adjectives lavished on the amazing left reef outside Tahiti’s Passe Havaé over the past week or two.

In an effort to provide readers with the most compelling and accurate information, we will be offering a new style of travel guide for select destinations. One that focuses on specific individuals ...

As the Olympics get going in earnest this week, not everyone’s attention is focused on host city Paris. Surf fans are heading to Tahiti, half a world away in French Polynesia. Why? Well, apart from ...

TEAHUPO'O, French Polynesia — Peva Levy said he felt a powerful, natural energy known as “mana” when he surfed Teahupo'o’s waves on a piece of plywood for the first time, rushing down a crumbling ...