Helicopter Sightseeing
Soar like a bird over Bora Bora's multi-colored
lagoon and lushly forested interior. Get a closer look at misty
Mount Otemanu and see why no one has ever been able to climb to
the top of this fabulous basalt obelisk.
Part of Bora Bora's overwhelming beauty can be attributed to a simple
mathematical calculation: the island covers only 23 square miles,
and Mount Otemanu soars to over 2,300 feet. From above you can easily
see the caldera of this spectacular extinct volcano. Follow the
traces of the highest mountain crests along Povai Bay (the large
bay at the southwest of the island), until they disappear into the
underwater channels.
Bora Bora is surrounded by tiny coral islets, called motus. Teavanui
Pass, the only navigable pass through the lagoon, separates Motu
Teveiroa in the north from Motu Tapu and Motu Toopua in the south.
The French explorer Paul-Emile Victor lived on tiny Motu Tapu from
1976 until his death in 1995.
The southern part of Motu Toopua has an interesting moniker, "Hiro's
Bells." It earned this name because of the unique shape of the 300-ft
high basalt rocks that jut out of this tiny islet and the resonant
sound that the rocks make when struck. |
