AGRICULTURAL AND ARTISANAL CULTURAL CENTRE

Created in 2014 at the initiative of the Ua Pou town council, this centre aims to offer services and amenities for locals and tourists alike in a friendly and shady place. It is divided into four structures - the craft centre, the agricultural cooperative, the bookshop and the museum - and deserves the traveller's attention. Managed by an artisan committee of Ua Pou (the Te Tuhuka O Te Henua Enana), the handicraft centre brings together about forty artisans. There are the stone sculptures of Jean Kautai, Petero and Sylvain, the wood carvings of Moana and Titi, Joseph Tahiatututapu and Tata Charles. Seed necklaces are made by Adélaïde or Bernadette. Irene's hats and head crowns, made of fabric of all colours, are also beautiful. Madame is also the queen of mango jam... As for the agricultural cooperative, managed by the Ao Pohue association, it sells fruit and vegetables at attractive prices, and even offers lunches every day except weekends and holidays (count around 700 CFP per meal). The bookshop, one of the only Internet connection points in the area (reserved for customers), is run by the very friendly Jacques Vitellini, a journalist by training and correspondent here for the Dépêche de Tahiti. Although open since 2014, it was inaugurated in November 2017. Finally, the local museum is still very modest, but it is just waiting to be expanded...