I've heard New Zealand is a good travel destination for solo females, I was wondering what its like in French Polynesia? I've heard there is pick pocketing but I am more concerned about sexual assaults, kidnapping, cab drivers, etc.
Is French Polynesia safe in that sense? Any advice is greatly appreciated! There was a detailed account on another forum where a member went into great detail about a sexual assault that took place some ten years ago.
Tahitian men can be rather muscular and probably hard to deter when inebriated, but in all my travels there my wife or girlfriends never expressed any questionable or uncomfortable situations. This was the only account I have ever heard of but I'm sure there have been incidents just like you will find in the rest of the world. My friend who lives on Moorea says that Papeete is not safe at night anymore.
Of course, this is all relative and perhaps it isn't as safe as it was but maybe safer than where you or I live. Prior to this the only incidents I could dig up were the basketball player that killed his wife at sea in the early 's and a mentally ill man who killed and ate two German tourists in the Marquesas he ate them to try and hide evidence, go figure.
On my first trip I stranded myself and my wife at the time because I didn't know how Le Truck worked took the big bus all the way to Tahiti Iti. Next one back was the next day. We had to hitchhike and quickly got two rides to our destination without speaking a word of French or Tahitian and both parties refused any money.
