The view of Bora Bora from the window of your Air Tahiti flight has been described as “a tiny emerald in a setting of turquoise, encircled by a protective necklace of sparkling pearls”.

Bora Bora's airport is built on a palm-fringed motu approximately 20 minutes by motor launch from the main village of Vaitape. From the Motu, the view of the main island is truly spectacular.

As you travel across Bora Bora’s world famous lagoon, you’ll discover why it is the center of interest for most visitors to the island. Popular activities include island and glass bottom boat tours, guided reef walking excursions, motu picnics, sunset cruises, snorkeling, scuba diving and the popular shark feeding excursion - where from shallow water you watch as local divers feed small, four-to-five-fout, non-threatening lagoon sharks by hand.

When visiting the hotel boutiques, be sure to look for lovely watercolor prints of the island done by Titi Becaud. Titi, her husband and their son live on the lagoon in the same boat in which they sailed to the islands from France several years ago.