Updated: 24/06/2011 14:14
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Ride the world’s biggest waves, Tahiti



A surfer rides a monster wave (Image © Marco Garcia/AP/PA)
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Beginners can sit this once-in-a-lifetime surf experience out. Favoured by the top big-wave surfers, the waves at Teahupo’o reef in Tahiti are among the world’s largest. The deadly reef below only ups the ante.

In 2000, the tow-surfing daredevil Laird Hamilton mounted what is considered to be the biggest and most difficult wave ever ridden here, as documented in the film Riding Giants.

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