{"id":224525,"date":"2015-05-18T14:39:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T13:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calmedespins.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T08:37:59","slug":"hotel-vendee-vaa-aux-sables-dolonne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calmedespins.com\/en\/2015\/05\/18\/hotel-vendee-vaa-aux-sables-dolonne\/","title":{"rendered":"Vend\u00e9e VA'A hotel in Les Sables d'Olonne"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little-known sport in mainland France, football in Polynesia is as popular as it is back home. That's what VA'A represents in Tahiti.<\/p>\n

But first of all, what is a \"VA'A\"? It's a pirogue of Polynesian origin whose stability is ensured by an arm or float or outrigger.<\/p>\n

The biggest events take place on the islands around Tahiti and are now tending to be exported around the planet, for example to Hawaii or, in our case, to Les Sables d'Olonne in the Vend\u00e9e on the west coast of France in the Atlantic Ocean. And we call this event : Vend\u00e9e VA'A.<\/p>\n

\"Come<\/a>
Va'a race in Les Sables d'Olonne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vend\u00e9e VA'A aux Sables d'Olonne<\/strong>24 thousand kilometres for the Tahitians to come and race on our ocean during the Ascension weekend: that's not half a journey.<\/p>\n

As for the race itself, it starts from the Sables d'Olonne<\/strong> The first day with an arrival at Ile d'Yeu. Day 2 will be a tour of the island itself, and day 3 a return to Les Sables d'Olonne.<\/p>\n

The Calme des Pins hotel<\/strong> welcomed Tahitian rowers from EDT (Electricit\u00e9 de Tahiti) and ATN (Air Tahiti Nui), a nice slice of exoticism for Damien and Laure from Calme des Pins<\/strong>! What a pleasure!<\/p>\n

\"Departure
va'a EDT team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"ATN<\/a><\/p>\n

2015 will be remembered for a very complicated first day at sea, with the race halted halfway through due to a very large swell: The safety of the piroguers had to go through this. On Saturday, an out-and-back race from Les Sables d'Olonne to Bretignolles sur Mer was organised to make up for the rigours of the ocean.<\/p>\n

Difficulty makes an event exceptional. The Vend\u00e9e VA'A aux Sables d'Olonne<\/strong> the history of the sport and Calme des Pins hotel<\/strong> will welcome them for as long as they want.<\/p>\n

Thank you to all these teams and to the Tahitians for this wonderful experience.<\/p>\n

\"Le<\/a>
Va'a race in Les Sables d'Olonne<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Un sport m\u00e9connu en m\u00e9tropole, le football en Polyn\u00e9sie en \u00e9quivalence de popularit\u00e9 par rapport \u00e0 chez nous. Voil\u00e0 ce que repr\u00e9sente la VA’A \u00e0 Tahiti. Mais qu’est ce que tout d’abord la \u00ab\u00a0VA’A\u00a0\u00bb: c’est une pirogue d’origine Polyn\u00e9sienne dont la stabilit\u00e9 est assur\u00e9 par\u00a0 un bras ou flotteur ou en encore balancier. Les plus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"H\u00f4tel Vend\u00e9e VA'A aux Sables d'Olonne - Calme des Pins","_seopress_titles_desc":"L'h\u00f4tel Calme des Pins a accueilli les rameurs tahitiens d'EDT\u00a0 (\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 de Tahiti) et ATN (Air Tahiti Nui), Une belle tranche d'exotisme.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billets-dactualites"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calmedespins.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calmedespins.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calmedespins.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calmedespins.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calmedespins.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calmedespins.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240468,"href":"https:\/\/www.calmedespins.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224525\/revisions\/240468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calmedespins.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calmedespins.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calmedespins.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}