Tuesday, May 28, 2013
We went for a short stroll in the morning, to get some more information on the Moorean Fire Dancers that we had heard about. We saw a local fisherman selling his catch, which included the biggest Mahi Mahi I have ever seen.
The fire dancer show later that night was MUCH better than the one we saw in Tahiti. I would highly recommend it to anyone who finds themselves in Moorea.
We had a few pre-drinks from what we bought at the Juice Factory yesterday. Tahiti Drink is the perfect cocktail for relaxing in Polynesia.
It started out with a woman demonstrating a "pareu" and the many different ways to wear it. Created with traditional designs and bright tropical colours, this is typical tahitian clothing that can be tied into many different ways (a cover-up, a dress, shorts, a shawl). It can also be spread out as a picnic cloth or a beach towel.
Then they moved us over to the dancing area, where the show began. This show had a story behind it where a girl was pregnant and the chief(/father) would only marry her if she were having a boy. So she ran off to another island to have the child and when it turned out to be a boy, the chief happily married her. (Leaves you wondering what would have happened to it if it were a girl...).
The lady dancers, again, were hypnotic.
And they danced in different apparel.
And this part I didn't understand. After the chief and new mother were married, this seductress (I think) came up to the chief, handed him a corner of her dress and danced away seductively, while it slowly stripped off her.
At the end of the material, she tossed it off,
And then continued to dance around.
With that sexy confusion out of the way, they brought out the fire dancers.
This was one area where the male dancers outshone the female dancers.
Here are my four new Polynesian wives.
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