HOTEL DESCRIPTION
Bora Bora , with a lagoon resembling an artist ' s palette of blues and greens, is love at first sight.
Honeymooners and romantics from around the world have laid claim to this island where the castle-like Mount Otemanu pierces the sky. Lush tropical slopes and valleys blossom with hibiscus, while palm-covered motu circle the lagoon like a delicate necklace. Perfect white-sand beaches give way to emerald waters where impossibly colored fish animate the coral gardens.
Bora Bora lies 240 km (150 miles) northwest of Tahiti in the Leeward Society Islands and can be reached after 50mn flight from Tahiti thanks to Air Tahihi who offers more than 7 flights a day.
The main island, home to 4,225 inhabitants, is in the center if a multicolored lagoon, surrounded by offshore motu islets inside a protective necklace of coral.
There is only one navigable pass, facing the principal village of Vaitape.
A 29 km (18 miles) partially paved road circles the island, passing colorful villages, archaeological sites, old Army bunkers and cannon left over from World War II, when 5,000 American GIs made a "friendly invasion".
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