In Fiji, each new day brings with it a wide range of unique and fascinating things to see, do and experience. From wondrous beauty to captivating cultural experiences, sightseeing in Fiji will never fail to take your breath away. Picnic or stroll through the world famous private orchid collection of American actor, Raymond Burr. Visit legendary Viseisei Village where the original Fijians landed 3,500 years ago. Take an evening sugar train ride with cocktails and Fijian serenaders. Swim with the ‘gods’ in the mystical waterfall of a tropical rainforest.
Explore the huge, ancient cave fortress of Fiji’s last cannibal tribes – wondrous rock formations and awesome reminders of bygone days. Visit Kula Eco Park to see a microcosm of Fiji’s natural flora and fauna. Or, add a thrilling perspective and see the islands as only a flight-seeing experience can offer.
Fiji’s tropical climate, boasting the highest sunshine factor in the South Pacific, provides a sun culture that focuses on water and outdoor activities like the following:
Bike Riding
Biking should be an integral part of your eco-experience, either as adventurous mountain biking or casual scenic cycling. It is an independent and affordable way to see parts of Fiji and to keep fit. Fiji also offers motorcycle and off-road motor bike rentals.
Exploring
The ‘Nahehe’ Cave located in the Sigatoka Valley is nature’s treasure, accessed by a short trek through farmland and forest. The caves include a sacred pond and legendary “pregnancy gap” leading to the Great Cathedral Chamber. The tour is organized daily by Adventures in Paradise.
Guided Day Tours
Of Fiji’s capital city takes you to Government House, Fiji Museum, Albert Park, Botanical Gardens, University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay, The Fijian Handicraft Centre, Moslem Mosque, Hindu Temple, Catholic Cathedral and the main shopping district.
Horseback Riding
If you can’t find it at your hotel resort, try Newtown Beach Stables for beach, mountain, sunset or even moonlight rides.
Pearl Farms
Savusavu in the northern island of Vanua Levu produces Fiji’s rare pearls. With day tours to the farm, the visit will enlighten you on the farming techniques for pearls of significant color and world-recognized size.
Rivers
Explore Fiji’s extensive river systems, either by boat, jet boat, canoe, kayak or a “bilibili” bamboo raft, try the Navua River, Sigatoka River or Wainibuka River. Perhaps take a river safari. This award-winning eco-cultural tour aboard a jet-boat on the Sigatoka River gives you an in-depth experience of the panoramic view of the highland sceneries, farmlands and village communities.
Scenic Flights
See Fiji from a helicopter or fixed-wing craft is an aerial spectacle of reef-fringed islands floating amidst a cobalt blue ocean that needs to be seen to be believed.
Choose from waterskiing, water scooters, banana boating, glass bottom boat rides and sailing a sunfish or hobie cat.
Fiji’s vast and colorful underwater playgrounds (4% of the planet’s coral reefs) are teeming with 1500 species of fishes including dozens of rare or endemic species, 1000 known species of invertebrates and thousands more discoveries predicted, 445 documented marine plants, 400 known species of coral and five of the world’s seven marine turtles, three kinds of sea snake, an infinite variety of crustaceans and mollusks, worms and other vertebrate.
Fiji is also home to a variety of sharks as well as pilot, humpback, orca, and sperm whales, spinner dolphins, giant grouper, tuna, manta rays and sea turtles. This variety and diversity is matched only by the professional competence of the dive operators and the warm smiles and caring assistance of every Fijian dive crew member you’ll meet.
Bill Harrgan of Sport Diver magazine says that “The Fiji seascape is lush with color and diversity in a way few other destinations can match. Even the sunlight and seawater can’t mute the volume of Fiji’s symphony of hues.” Rated among the Top 10 dive destinations in the world, Fiji’s vast, varied and colorful underwater playgrounds boast something spectacular for divers at every skill level and the “unparalleled range of quality dive sites and sheer diversity of life on Fijian reefs is overwhelming breathtaking”: hard and soft corals, wall dives, caves, grottos and shipwrecks. Fiji is truly a diver’s paradise where the daily menu is so diversified that it is sometimes difficult to believe you are in the same country.
Waterfalls
Because of Fiji’s volcanic mountainous terrain, waterfalls are common on the larger islands. Perhaps the best knowns are in Bouma [Taveuni], Biausevu [Coral Coast], Rakiraki, Koroyanitu [Lautoka], Savusavu, Wailoku and the Navua River.
Village Visits
Feel the warmth and genuine hospitality of the Fijian people when visiting the traditional villages but please be mindful of Fijian traditional values and protocol. Navala Village, famous for its unspoilt beauty of the surrounding area brings you Fiji’s hinterland with a spectacular hilltop location of over 100 thatched “bures” [Fijian traditional home]. With a magnificent view from the hilltop location, Navala village appears to be in a shape of a crucifix.
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