Theme parks, tourist traps, tour guides, mouse ears. You wanted to get away from it all.

You did. Bora Bora.

Descending from 30,000 feet, the clouds give way to jagged mountain peaks plunging from a piercing blue South Pacific sky. You see an island surrounded by a lagoon and ringed by magnificent coral reefs. At last, a place that lives up to the pictures in the travel brochure.