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Another highlight of 1999 was long-planned: to be in Tahiti during their annual "Fete" celebration in July.  Each village spends all year making costumes and practicing dances and music for the contests between villages that go on for two weeks.  Tourists fly in from all over the world to watch the shows on the big islands so we decided to go to Tahaa where the largest village has 600 people and few tourists attend.  We were well-rewarded.  This photo is from the children's competition.  These kids are from one of the six little villages that competed and were they good!  The adult competition had even bigger groups and more elaborate costumes.  We went to Bora-Bora for one night's competition and couldn't get close to the dancers.  On Tahaa they did it for themselves, not the tourists, and we were right by the dance floor.