Somehow I convinced my husband that the fifth wedding anniversary is the Tahitian anniversary. The traditional gift, actually, is wood. For years, I had dreamed of going to Bora Bora in French ...

Considered the birthplace of the overwater bungalow, French Polynesia is renowned for its luxury resorts, which run the gamut from eco-friendly private islands to posh retreats from international ...

Last August, Sonya Moore ticked French Polynesia off her travel bucket list. Despite a lot of planning before the trip, looking back, there are a few things she'd have done differently. She would have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When daydreaming about an escape to French Polynesia, many think first of Bora Bora, that green-and-blue blip on the radar in the ...

Adventurous travelers can summit Mount Otemanu in Bora Bora, one of 118 islands and atolls in French Polynesia. Photograph by Maridav, Alamy Stock Photo Hawaiians revere Tahiti as part of their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jetty in the lagoon of Bora Bora, French Polynesia Bora Bora is one of the French Polynesian islands, and what a stunner it is.

Beginning in the mid-1930s, but with its heyday in the 1960s, French Polynesia—with its shallow turquoise lagoons and rum-rich tropical tipples—was all the rage. What came to be known in the U.S. as ...

Perhaps no other South Pacific isle holds the allure of Bora Bora. Thanks to its green Mount Otemanu towering over a lagoon encircled by motu, or islets, it’s the closest counterpart to the mythical ...

As anyone who has been there can attest, the water surrounding the French Polynesian island of Bora Bora is so vividly turquoise that it is almost startling. Because of that, the island’s resulting ...