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BEYOND BORA BORA

I’m going to be honest; when you’re lying by your palm-fringed private pool at the grand Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora, it’s difficult to imagine there could be more to life than this.

And cheeky stay at InterContinental Moorea Resort & Spa aside, it’s even harder to imagine that there could be more to the islands of Tahiti than Bora Bora and Moorea.

Literature tells you this is not the case, of course, since the islands of Tahiti are actually 118 islands and atolls spread across five idyllic archipelagos – the Society Islands, Tuamotus, Marquesas, Gambiers and Australs – each one of them a haven of powdersoft motus ringed by lush palm trees.

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