After two beautiful and relaxing weeks in the Cook Islands it was time to say good bye and head to our next island destination Bora Bora. The 2 1/2 hour Air Tahiti flight from Rarotonga first took us to Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia on Tahiti, for a one night stopover. We spent just enough time there to realise that people really speak French in this part of the world – well it is called French Polynesia after all – and have dinner at one of the famous roulottes at Vaiete Square. It has been quite a while since the last French lesson at school and lucky enough the Tahitians appreciated the few words we remembered and politely switched to English in their response 😉

The next morning it was only a 45 minute hop from Tahiti to Bora Bora:

Air Tahiti flight to Tahiti and Bora Bora

Bora Bora from the plane

Who doesn’t enjoy waiting for his luggage to arrive with THAT kind of view?

Our hotel in Bora Bora (cool name right?)

our room is the one with the open door …

we could get used to waking up to this kind of view

Since we were both not feeling too well the first couple of days on the island we took it easy, caught up on some reading and enjoyed Tahitian Hinano beer on the beach.

yummy Tahiti Hinano beer

this doggie sure knows how to enjoy a lazy afternoon

Our highlight on Bora Bora definitely was the jet ski tour around the lagoon …

Let’s get started!

photo opportunity in front of the “four seasons”

“This is fun honey!”

“catch us if you can!”

… time for a break

And if you’re walking along the shore because you don’t want to spend $100 a day for a lousy scooter this is what you just might see:

“look honey! There’s a shark in the water” – “huh?”

one of Bea’s gazillion flower pics 🙂

“look honey! there’s a stingray” – “Where?” – “like RIGHT in front of you” – “wahhh”

In our experience five days was enough time to scratch Bora Bora off our bucket list and return to Tahiti.

à bientôt
Bea and Wolfgang