I regularly meet people producing their initial visit, and commonly they are as blown away by Bora Bora as I was when I spent a week camping below in 1977. If it is possible to disregard the jet skis sometimes whizzing past your bungalow, and search beyond the travelers hanging below parasails above the lagoon, you can appreciate why James A. Michener wrote that this may be the world’s most lovely island.

Obviously, there are far more holidaymakers the following than on another French Polynesian island. Therefore, some lovers now like to polish off their honeymoons about the additional peaceful Tahaa or Huahine right after the mile-a-minute pace the following.