Varun is taking a break from his Daily Diary for a few days and has entrusted this responsibility to Tim & James.
Filming of the 2010 series of Inside Luxury Travel is near completion. During 2010 Varun and the Inside Luxury Travel film crew travelled to Melbourne, Hawaii, KwaZulu-Natal, Quebec, Istanbul, Prague, Edinburgh, Abu Dhabi, Mexico, French Polynesia, Barcelona and Tasmania.
We are pleased to announce the filming locations for 2011 - Malaysia, Antigua, Napa Valley, Sydney, Big Sur, Wales, Geneva, Sweden, Botswana, Egypt, New Delhi and Mumbai.
Over the next few weeks there will be a series of Look Back Diary entries. Our twelfth filming location was Bora Bora.
In Bora Bora we filmed with "Four Seasons Bora Bora" (www.fourseasons.com/borabora) and "ROA Yachting" (www.roa-yachting.com)
We are pleased to announce the filming locations for 2011 - Malaysia, Antigua, Napa Valley, Sydney, Big Sur, Wales, Geneva, Sweden, Botswana, Egypt, New Delhi and Mumbai.
Over the next few weeks there will be a series of Look Back Diary entries. Our twelfth filming location was Bora Bora.
In Bora Bora we filmed with "Four Seasons Bora Bora" (www.fourseasons.com/borabora) and "ROA Yachting" (www.roa-yachting.com)
"My first tattoo!" - Varun
"The Polynesian people (& Tahitians) are covered in tattoos which all have meanings. No "love, hate" tattoos, stories of wind, earth, sea creatures etc ... some of them are so artistic ..."
"A helmet dive! It was so much fun ... and it is a very stress-free way of exploring the ocean floor." - Varun
Our friends/keepers/extra crew at Four Seasons Bora Bora- mathilde and brad
"A helmet dive! It was so much fun ... and it is a very stress-free way of exploring the ocean floor." - Varun
Torrential rain!
We headed straight to "Perliculteur a Tahaa" - a pearl farm – the main one on the island.I met with Aymeric Champon who showed the process of “culturing” a pearl … and then the final product. So the pearl must be a perfect colour (grayish), as round as round can be … and as FAT as possible to be the best … they had one pearl there that was worth thousands of dollars …
"I am living on ROA – a 72 feet yacht – which has 4 bedrooms (?) of which mine is the largest at just 20 square metres! The yacht (boat, cruiser) has 3 crew – Captain Teiva Tapare, Chef – Christophe and Steward(ess) – Vaihere… there’s a lovely lounge (the square?), kitchen (galley), bridge … and a plank (to walk off into the ocean). Set over 3 storeys, the ROA is 250 square metres in area …The food on ROA was stunning, the staff superb … I am NOT a sea person … but I did enjoy my 3 day cruise" - Varun
The view from Varun's room on the ROA Yacht
Captain Teiva
"The sun was now setting over Bora Bora - I met up with Didier Fimeyer - a fire dancer. Fire dancing is part of Polynesian culture ... it was a way of welcoming vistors from island to island. So, I had a lesson without fire ... and then - erm - played with fire. It was strangely ... incendiary ..." - Varun
