Plage Publique Vaiava
17°39′25″S 149°35′57″W
Pāʻea
- White
- Sand
- Sandy
- Water entry
- Calm
- Swimming
- None
- Surf
- Good
- Snorkelling
- Moderate
- Crowd
Vaiava — PK18, named for the kilometre marker on the coast road — is the public white-sand beach on Tahiti's west coast, and it exists partly because Tahiti does not naturally have much white sand.
The reef is close enough in to snorkel to and the lagoon behind it is calm. It is the beach people on Tahiti actually go to at a weekend, which tells you both that it is good and that Saturday is not when to have it to yourself.
Plan of the bay
Facilities
- Food
Access and parking
Signposted off the coast road at PK18 with parking areas mapped nearby. Public access; the beach is narrow, so high tide takes a good deal of it.
What the survey found
Everything here is read from OpenStreetMap at the coordinates above, not from a press pack.
- Toilets
- Not mapped
- Showers
- Not mapped
- Food or drink
- Mapped
- Rentals
- Not mapped
- Lifeguard
- Not mapped
- Parking
- Four areas · charge not recorded
Nearest settlements: Pāʻea 3.89 km.
SourceOpenStreetMapsurveyed 2026-09-21
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