1.Bora Bora
Bora Bora is a volcanic island located in French Polynesia in the South Pacific, Tahiti 260 Km (45 minutes flight). Exit waters there are 13 million years, the volcano has gradually pressed for TODAY 'Today bordered by a beautiful lagoon and a barrier reef. Mountains Otemanu (727 m), Pahia (661m) and Hue (619 m) overlooking the magnificent spectacle of colors of the lagoon.
The island was formerly known as Vavau. Discovery by the navigator Roggeveen in 1722, Cook landed there in 1769 and named Bora Bora (Pora Pora in fact), name meaning can be "first born", alluding to the fact that the god would Taaroa created immediately after Raiatea .
The history of Bora Bora is marked by wars between different clans of the island or against neighboring islands. In 1820, Protestant missionaries arrived on the island and the first temple was opened in 1822. It was in 1888 that Bora Bora and all the Leeward Islands were annexed by France.
Another important fact of contemporary history of Bora Bora, the presence between 1942 and 1946, U.S. troops under Operation Bobcat on the island has left many traces as anti-aircraft batteries, blockhouses, but especially airstrip which was long the longest Polynesia and which is still used today. since the opening of the first hotel in 1961, the island has ceased to grow with the construction of hotels and their famous bungalows. Despite this development, the island has retained its atmosphere and continues to inspire travelers from around the world.
2.Maldives
Maldives, where sands are white as the smiles of the locals, where fish swim happily in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, where the weather is a dream, and the deep rays of the sun wait to engulf you their arms.
In ancient times, the shores of the Maldives welcomed lost travellers. Still welcoming, these shores remain, providing a tranquil haven for visitors.
Maldives has deep blue seas, turquoise reefs, white sandy beaches and palm trees. It is also a place full of character, where its people have long spent their days languishing in the very essence of idyll living. While it is the perfect place to sit on a beach and watch a sunset with a cocktail balanced on your hand, it is also a geographical marvel, knowing that there are thousands of fish swimming around the vivid corals just a few feet away from where you sit.
The Maldives lies in two rows of atolls in the Indian Ocean, just across the equator. The country is made up of 1,190 coral islands formed around 26 natural ring-like atolls, spread over 90,000 square kilometers. These atolls structures are formed upon a sharp ridge rising from the ocean, making way for their secluded uniqueness.
Each atoll in the Maldives is made of a coral reef encircling a lagoon, with deep channels dividing the reef ring. A string of islands take their places among this atoll ring; each island has its own reef encircling the island lagoon. The reefs of the islands, alive with countless types of underwater creatures and vibrant corals, protect the islands from wind and wave action of the surrounding vast oceans. This unique structure of reefs and channels makes navigation almost impossible for the passer-by without sufficient information about these waters.
Ninety-nine percent of the Maldives is made up of sea. The people of the islands are widely dispersed across the atolls, with about 200 inhabited islands. About 90 islands are developed as tourist resort and the rest are uninhabited or used for agriculture and other livelihood purposes.
3.Santorini
Santorini’s group of islands is consisted of Thera, Thirasia, Aspronisi, Palea and Nea Kameni (Volcanoes) islands and is located in the most southern part of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea, 63 nautical miles north of Crete. The surface area of Thera is 73 sq. km. and its population, distributed among thirteen villages, is 13.600 people, according to the 2001 census.
he present-day crescent shape of the island is a consequence of the activity of the volcano in prehistoric times. The island itself owes its very existence to the volcano.
The last huge eruption of the volcano dates back 3,600 years, to the late bronze age. Thirty million cubic meters of magma in the form of pumice and ash were blown to a height of up to 36 kilometers above the island. Pumice deposits, dozens of meters thick, buried one of the most prosperous pre-historic settlements of that period, feeding the myth of the lost Atlantis.
The mild activity of the volcano after this major eruption continues into the present (the most recent eruption occurred in 1950) building up two small islands within the caldera, Palea and Nea Kameni. These islands represent the volcano's most recent activity.
The marvelous dry climate and continuous sunshine create year around conditions which are perfect for observation, photographs and videos under an extraordinary variety of natural lights and colours that give the visitor the exceptional advantage of reaching the interior of the volcano by boat.