Tuesday, 19 November 2019

Day 49 - Sunday 17 November

Cruise Day 40.

French Polynesia (3 of 3).

This morning we sailed to the beautiful island of Bora Bora (also one of the Society Islands), and were tendered to the village of Vaitape.



Vaitape and Mounts Pahia & Otemanu in the background 

with Gay & Jim 

another visit here - how lucky are we? 

the welcoming band 

We decided upon a tour around the island with the entertaining Christie.



We stopped at one of the island's Protestant Churches and met the locals.







We then stopped at one of Christie's family's properties, where she explained the family graves in the front of properties.



Next stop was at the renovated Royal Bora Bora Hotel.




many of the very expensive hotels are on the neighbouring islands (background)

Our next stop was at Matira Beach (the only public beach on Bora Bora - the rest are owned by the hotels), where we stayed to swim and snorkel. 


We then caught the local bus to Bloody Mary's for another lunch of Poisson Cru Coco.




We then caught a mini-bus back to Vaitape  for our tender back to our ship.


one of a pod of dolphins to farewelled us 

Bye-bye Bora Bora - thank you for another wonderful experience


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