French Polynesia and her miriad of islands, including Bora Bora and Tahiti, are an ideal place for a special holiday, anniversary or a honeymoon.  So if you would like to enjoy a trip to the paradise islands, then Tahiti and her islands could be the place for you.

Known more commonly as Tahiti, the correct name for this area of the South Pacific is French Polynesia, which is a collection of five Archipelagos, the Society Islands, of which Tahiti is one, the Austral Islands, the Marquesas, the Gambier Islands and the Tuamotu Atolls archipelago. There are 118 islands with an area of 1544 square miles of land but they are spread over an area of nearly 2,000,000 square miles of Pacific Ocean, which is equal in size to the mainland of  Western Europe!

The Islands of Manihi, Tikehau, Rangiroa and Fakarava are all part of the Tuamotu, archipelago that is the largest of French Polynesia Island groupings. The islands lay to the east of the main island of Tahiti with 78 islands and atolls making up the group covering an area of 20,000 square kilometres.

These four main atoll Islands are all to be found in the north of the archipelago, just a short 60-minute flight from Tahiti. With very limited tourist development these islands offer an experience of island living that has changed very little over the centuries that man has been in occupation. These atolls offer the visitor some of the best scuba diving to be found any where, with Rangiroa being continually voted as one of the Worlds top 10 dive locations.  And for those who just want to snorkel in the shallows, the experience will be an unforgettable one.