Man walks in shallow water
Traditional Balinese dancers
Boat passing rocky cliff
Birds on rocky island
Aerial view of blue water and small green islands
Boys jumping off dock into water
Waterfall and rocky cliff
Stone statues under starry sky
Strings of paper birds festooning narrow street
Surfer on large wave
Sunset over house-filled hill
Sunset on coast with mountains and palm trees
Fishermen fixing their boats during low tide
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Bora-BoraBora-Bora has so many natural advantages it deserves its long-held reputation as the South Pacific’s loveliest island retreat. “It’s everything a Polynesian island should be—blue lagoon, sand-fringed motus, soaring peaks,” says Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler.Excerpt from "A Year of Islands: Eden Found" in the May/June 2004 issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine
Photograph by Tim McKenna

Island Getaways

See photos of top island getaways (including Bali, Maui, Lord Howe Island, and more) in this travel photo gallery from National Geographic.

July 08, 2010

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