Two months before Captain James Cook left on his first voyage around the world in 1768, another ship returned to England with tales of a newly discovered tropical paradise in the South Pacific, an island surrounded by a turquoise lagoon and populated by beautiful and friendly women.
Sailors signed up in droves to go with Cook, who made the island a refueling base for his three unprecedented voyages around the world.
The island was Tahiti. It quickly became a destination for adventurers like Cook and for lonely sailors in search of a lover, like the mutineers from the British ship Bounty, who set their captain adrift so they could stay behind and marry Tahitian women.
More than two centuries later, Tahiti and neighboring islands in French Polynesia have morphed into a destination for Hollywood stars, luxury travelers, and honeymooners, who can spend more than $1,000 a night to sleep in overwater bungalows and hundreds more on massages and meals delivered by outrigger canoe.
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