On this extraordinary journey, visit Easter Island, known worldwide for its 887 moai
– enormous stone heads weighing up to 82 tons. Sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned in 1704 on what is now known as Robinson Crusoe Island, inspiring Daniel Defoe to pen his classic novel. The Pitcairn Islands are best remembered for the role they played with the Bounty mutineers, whose descendants still live there today. While rich in history, French Polynesia invites you to relax on the cotton-soft beaches of Tahiti and Bora Bora and snorkel the reefs of Fakarava. Emerald green mountains rise from a sea so impossibly blue, you will quickly understand its mystical hold on painter Paul Gauguin.