Bora Bora French Polynesia

Day 14 of 164 Days Around the World Cruise

BORA BORA FRENCH POLYNESIA

Considered the world's most beautiful island, the Society Island of Bora Bora is only 15 square miles. This stunning land is made up of a barrier reef of islets, each one connected to the next depending on the tides. Surrounded by a deep lagoon that glows countless shades of turquoise and emerald, its palm-lined shores and forested slopes rise up dramatically to the pillar-like peak of Mt. Otemanu at 2,379 feet. American novelist James Michener put the island on many travelers' itineraries in the 1950s when he called it "the South Pacific at its unforgettable best."