Tuherahera Village
Tuherahera
The atoll’s only village, with colorful wooden houses, a church, and gardens along a ring road. You can see the whole village by bicycle in half a day.
Tuherahera lies at the southwest corner of the atoll, right beside the airport, and nearly all the island’s residents live here. The village has a white Catholic church and a Protestant church, a primary school, a town hall, and a few small shops. Households grow frangipani, breadfruit, and noni, and racks for drying copra stand along the roads. The best way to explore is to borrow bicycles from your guesthouse and ride the ring road, stopping at the fish market on the village edge to watch the lagoon sunset. On Sundays you can attend a church service and hear local people singing in choir. Shops have short opening hours and are mostly closed on Sundays.
Opening hours
All day