Bora Bora, the "Jewel of South Pacific", part I





The island of Bora Bora, aka the Pearl of the South Pacific, is considered the most beautiful of all the 118 in the French Polynesia. Bora Bora is part of the set of Leeward Islands of the Society Archipelago and is located 270 km northwest of Tahiti. With its coral bottoms, solitary white sand beaches and a half submerged volcanic crater, it is the ideal image of the South Seas paradise and the most publicized island in the world.




This natural miracle is only 38 km² in area, it is inhabited by approximately 10 000 people, welcomes close to 200 000 visitors each year and its hotel capacity exceeds 1000 beds. The dimensions of the main island is only 10 km long and 4km wide and has a partially paved road of 30 km of perimeter.


The particularity of Bora Bora is that it combines the two types of island in French Polynesia: the high one, with mountains in the center and the low one, with an atoll formed by a ring of coral skimming the water.



Inside the atoll, in the inner lagoon of blue and green waters in all imaginable ranges, miraculously emerge a series of small coral islets, called “motu”, which sometimes host tourist resorts - a private and intimate paradise in Eden.





Bora Bora is famous for luxury resorts with villas over the lagoon. The first over-the-water bungalows on stilts over the lagoon were built in 1970. Today, over-water bungalows are a standard feature of most Bora Bora resorts. Their quality ranges from more affordable, basic places to stay  to very luxurious and expensive accommodations.






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