All these features make Moorea one of the most expensive resorts in the world.
From a distance, you can see the volcanic island of Moorea and its tough mountains, barbed pick, and lavish greenery.
Even though parts of Moorea are beginning to seem like Papeete suburbs,
the island still retains more of old Polynesia than does Tahiti.
If the landscape isn't dreamy enough, visitors can learn the art of growing black pearls or
traditional tattooing at Moorea's Tiki Theatre Village, a reconstructed Polynesian village.
Huahine is almost as beautiful as Moorea and Bora Bora,
but with only a handful of hotels and nearly no urban footprint, it retains much of its old Polynesian charm.
Moorea, on the other hand,
is a popular tourist destination, still recovering from a loss of up to 95 percent of its live coral coverage about five years before the four-year study begins.