Polynesian wedding.

Kitsch Blue water, masses of flowers and hotel rooms on the sea: who an overdose Romantikhotel studied, is located on the South Pacific island Bora Bora best. That makes it a popular destination for Honeymoon - a bargain is the celebration at the other end of the world does not.

 

Vaitape - Of course, a marriage in the home village church something good. But with that small change is also a romantic - for example in the South Seas. There is Bora Bora, also known as "Pearl of the Pacific", the ultimate island wedding. The island in French Polynesia has been specializing in bridal couples, most hotels offer packages for Honeymoons from abroad.

The airport of Bora Bora is tiny and lies on a Riffinsel. Each Incoming Zöllner receives from a single flower of the National Tiare flower, and then a full circle like this from the hotel hostesses. Then it goes with a speedboat on the famous lagoon, which in many blue and turquoise tones schillert, to the accommodations.

Bora Bora lies 280 kilometers northwest of Tahiti, the main island of French Polynesia. Once it was discovered by James Cook around the world. In the Western world was approximately 38 square kilometer island with just 9000 inhabitants, but from a little romantic reason: After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 1941 and the entry of the Americans in the Second World War, Bora Bora to a U.S. base -- with a supply station, 30 for storing oil, an airstrip and a port for seaplanes. The base was never attacked, in 1946 the soldiers moved again.

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Today the islanders live almost exclusively on tourism. Above all, Americans and Japanese come to Bora Bora. From Germany there are a few guests, in the year 2007 came around 4000th This may in the long directions - from Germany, there are about 26 hours - and also at the hotel prices. The South Pacific paradise is one of the most expensive holiday destinations in the world. The tourist board does but do not worry: Bora Bora is regarded as "Once in a lifetime" target - once in a lifetime to many holidaymakers have been here, for example for a round birthday or just a wedding.

Wedding ceremony in the dugout

Most hotels on Bora Bora is not on the main island with the capital Vaitape, but on the upstream about 30 small islands along the reef, called Motus. Weddings can be anywhere: in a traditional dugout canoes in the lagoon, on a coral reef with colorful fish or in the harbor at sunset.

Although most couples do not really get married, but only a ceremony to choose a supplement to the civil ceremony in their own land, or to renew the Eheversprechens about the tenth wedding anniversary.

Whether engaged couple, honeymoon or Jubiliar - most hotels have for them "Wedding Specialists". The newest hotel in Bora Bora is the "Four Seasons", was built in 2008. There is a wedding chapel overlooking the lagoon. The wedding planner organizes the day - from floral decorations, the ceremony and the menu to the wedding cake.

Can be organized a brunch with the family, but also a cocktail reception and a large banquet, photographer and music included. Honeymoons can be romantic dining by the sea, to the second massage, or a lonely Picnic on the beach.

The famous Hotel Bora Bora, today Aman resort, offers a wedding on the beach as part of a Polynesian ceremony. Indigenous dancers will accompany the couple on his way to the sea. Bride and groom wear a traditional white pareo or sarong and replace the wedding vow in front of a Tahitian priest. Who at the ceremony have no audience, you can also use the canoe on a private island can be.

Flowers everywhere

The InterContinental Bora Bora "has made similar offers and spoils after the wedding ceremony in an over water bungalow - with oceans of flowers, champagne and room service several times a day. Breakfast is served in the outrigger boat delivered. Otherwise it more sporting. The guests free snorkeling, canoeing and tennis. In the event that the evening turtledoves nothing better mind, this hotel offers free DVDs available.

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Flowers are abundant for all guests. The rooms in the hotel are decorated with flowers - and not just the beds and couches, but all the way to the toilet cistern. The wooden floor in the living room of over-water bungalows have a glass bottom, through the 24 hours of colorful fish to admire. And from the terrace you can with a bold set directly into the clear, warm 30 degree water of the lagoon jump. If you are lucky, there encounters a playful, curious manta rays, which can also be pet.

Those who tired of the beach once, you can also discover interesting island inside: fruit plantations, burial sites, wild orchids, forests and high mountains. From the highest peak, Mount Otemanu, the entire atoll is. Since 3 February 2008 Bora Bora also has a German Honored: Tony Marshall.

The 70 year old singer made the South Pacific island 30 years ago with an earwig on the destination of many German Dream: The title was called "Bora Bora" - surely this is a beautiful, romantic wedding song.