A honeymoon in French Polynesia is defined by separation. From continents, from crowds, from everyday pace. This is one of the most remote inhabited regions on earth, and that remoteness shapes the experience in ways few destinations can replicate.
French Polynesia works visually because the lagoons are shallow enough that you see actual color stratification: pale turquoise over white sand near shore, then deepening to sapphire where the reef drops off, then navy in the channels between islands. The sky is particular too. The light at dawn is soft and golden; by midday it’s harsh and clarifying; at sunset it turns amber and pink.