Tahiti Trouble in the Jungle-disco
Shake That the ancients about the youth’s head, is known all over the world – whether the yobs make noise now at the bus stop or in the jungle. In Papenoo Valley has been a while No more idyllic. There remains only the self-help.
Usually enjoys Teiva the view. His small house is high up on a mountainside north of Tahiti. Every morning at 4 clock is the 46-year-old with his binoculars at the window and keep on the lookout for the perfect wave. Then he goes down to the black sand beach and swings for a few hours surfing again before he goes to work. On weekends, however Teiva looks increasingly not towards the sea, but in the valley of the Papenoo River, which winds from the interior of the island on the coast. And what he sees there, he likes most of all.
Also on this Sunday afternoon, techno music blaring through the valley. The volume makes the Love Parade competition. Teiva clenches his fists. “These people have no respect,” he says. “They sell someday all the animals from the jungle.” Can I do that every weekend this now. From noon to night. “And are all drunk,” complains further Teiva.
Those who take so much to Teivas discontent in the valley, are among a new generation of Tahitians. Adolescents and teenagers, and young families differ here from the weekend to deal with loud music and a little alcohol to relax from everyday life. On the beautiful coast of the island is no place for them to celebrate. They would not only go a lot more people on your nerves, but also scare away the tourists. The escape into the jungle, there is the logical alternative.
Teiva is not such understanding. He is very particular about the Polynesian culture. The Tahitians with only a sarong, the short skirt of the locals, and a chain of wild boar teeth. His body is decorated with the traditional tattoos of the island. In the glove compartment of his jeep is a little worn stone that will protect him from all kinds of evil. And surfing is his less sports than religion. If it were up to him, then owned the party people already arrested. But the police do nothing. The reason for Teiva knows: “The children of the mayor of my village are responsible for the noise down there.”
The children of the mayor, meanwhile, are down at the small dirt road that runs beside the River. They presented a huge speaker boxes, the power supply for its revamped Japanese SUVs. Reggae alternates with techno and rap. About 20 young men and women have gathered in front. They are also tattooed. However, their body art is more reminiscent of traditional Polynesian patterns, but the tattoos of Mexican youth gangs in Los Angeles. Their cultural models no longer come from Tahiti, but from the USA.
Who the way further into the interior of the island, follows the true constantly bored such groups. It is with child and beer bottle bathed in Papenoo, on the banks of grilled, smoked a joint or simply nodded his head to the booming bass. And some of the rowdies all day driving his motorcycle along the river roaring. Strangers one meets here with skeptical eyes, and tourists who actually want to visit only the beautiful waterfalls or volcanoes steals, while an uneasy feeling. “The mood is sometimes very aggressive,” is also Teiva.
Teivas family inhabited the valley for generations, and here has many plots. He builds up again just a new house on a steep mountain slope. When he is finished, then he wants to let the noise no longer offer. He has already said the mayor. So far, he and his friends from time to time just blocks the way, says Teiva. However, he could also imagine more drastic means of pacification. His uncle has recently demonstrated. Who marched with his gun abruptly to the valley – and blew up the boxes of the troublemakers. Then the police had visited his uncle. “But they’ve only taken the gun,” says Teiva and grins.
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