Flights to Hiva Oa
Book your flight to Hiva Oa and discover the island that captured the hearts of Paul Gauguin and Jacques Brel. This island, located 1184 km northeast of Tahiti, is characterized by a particular strength and charm thanks to its rugged mountains and cliffs, superb black sand beaches, hidden gem waterfalls. With its 320 km², Hiva Oa is the third-largest island in French Polynesia, after Tahiti and Nuku Hiva.
Booking a ticket to Hiva Oa will take you to a place of genuine nature, with verdant valleys where goats and wild horses roam freely over immense territories. Hiva Oa is, among other things, regarded as the “Garden of the Marquesas”, with its fertile soil producing a wide variety of fruits (grapefruit, pineapple, papaya...) and vegetables.
Staying on Hiva Oa also gives you the chance to discover the island's rich heritage, with magnificent historic sites such as Puamau, home to Takaii, Tahiti and her islands’s tallest tiki (2.50m), Taaoa, comprising over 1,000 paepae (ancient stone platforms), and Tahauku, home to an enormous 9.60m-long rock engraved with petroglyphs.
What are you waiting for to book your flight to Hiva Oa? The island offers you its magnificent landscapes as a backdrop for your hikes. Perhaps you'll have the chance to see a sculptor at work, get a “patutiki” (Marquisian tattoo), or discover the museum dedicated to the famous painter Paul Gauguin, who lived his last years on the island and was buried there. Like Gauguin, singer Jacques Brel also made Hiva Oa his home, and his life on the island is commemorated in a memorial. Hiva Oa is also the ideal starting point for discovering the island of Tahuata and its many points of interest, whether for a day trip or a longer stay.
If you're looking for a cheap flight to Hiva Oa, don't hesitate to take a look at our Air Tahiti air Passes, which offer many good deals for travel in Polynesia. There is a time difference of half an hour between Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands.
Enjoy your trip to the Marquesas islands!
Flight Duration :
3h15
Distance :
1434 km
Airport Code :
AUQ
Practical information
Hiva Oa airport (Atuona)
Hiva Oa airport, in the Marquesas Islands, is some distance from the village of Atuona.
There is no shuttle service, but taxis are often available upon arrival. Otherwise, you will need to make the journey by car.
If you have booked tourist accommodation, find out from your hosts whether they can arrange your outward and return transfer.
A public shuttle service, Te Ata O Hiva, allows you to get to the islands of Tahuata and Fatu Hiva from Hiva Oa. Please, check with the DPAM (Direction Polynésienne des Affaires Maritimes) for more information.
Services available
- Snack bar
- Souvenir shop
- Telephone kiosk
- Taxis
- Toilets
Population : + 2 447 inhabitants.
Surface area : 320 km² (123,56 sq. miles)
Main village : Atuona
Minimum flight duration : 3h15
Distance from Tahiti : 1434 km
The biggest tikis in French Polynesia were discovered in the bay of Puamau: the tallest, named "Taka'i'i", is 2.43 metres tall (almost 8 feet).
One of the Puamau tikis represents a woman lying down.
Paul Gauguin and Jacques Brel are buried in Atuona's main cemetery.
With an area of 123 sq. miles, Hiva Oa is the third largest island in French Polynesia, after Tahiti and Nuku Hiva.
There is a time difference of half an hour between Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands.
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The good reasons to visit Hiva Oa
The good reasons to visit
- Exceptional, captivatingly beautiful scenery: 123 sq. miles of lush mountainsides, contrasted by lovely valleys where wild horses roam.
- A place of pilgrimage: visitors come and contemplate the graves of Brel and Gauguin.
- Impressive archaeological sites: Puamau and its tikis, the biggest in French Polynesia, or Taaoa and its countless paepaes (stone platforms).
- Cultural centres: the Gauguin Museum, Jacques Brel Cultural Centre and Atuona craft centre.
- A multitude of artists: sculptors, tattoo artists, craftspeople.
- Lots of options for days out, on foot, by 4x4 or on horseback.
- A day trip (by boat) to the charming neighbouring island of Tahuata.
Do not miss
- The tohua Pepeu
- The huge paepae of Taaoa, "Tahua Upeke", the neighbouring village and church,
- The Eiaone and Punae rock carvings,
- The picturesque village of Hanaiapa,
- The Tahauku rock carvings,
- The island of Tahuata.
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