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Christmas vacation on Fiji Islands
Your ultimate private, luxury Fiji resort awaits. Taveuni Palms is one of the world’s most exquisite luxury accommodation estates. Each luxury villa at Taveuni Palms sits on its own private acre of absolute beachfront and boasts its own private pool, beach and personal staff of seven. Your private beachfront retreat is a spacious two-bedroom, [...]
Jean-Michel Cousteau Fiji Island Resort 2011 One of the most renowned vacation destinations in the South Pacific, the award-winning, five-star Jean-Michel Cousteau Fiji Islands Resort is located on 17 acres of a coconut plantation on the island of Vanua Levu, overlooking the turquoise blue waters of Savusavu Bay. The celebrated resort is a favorite spot [...]
Fiji : Under Sea World of Jean-Michel Cousteau
ISLAND music from the bar drifted through the tropical night air. The suggestion of a breeze wafting through the screened walls of my thatched hut carried the scent of frangipani. My nose twitched in protest against the oily perfume. “Bless you,” came a disembodied voice as I sneezed. Murph and Cathy stepped into a ring [...]
Fiji: Descent into heaven
The pilot glanced down at the island beneath our wings, jerked his thumb twice to say we had arrived and grinned. Don and I looked through the struts of our four-seater aircraft and saw a South Sea island complete with a fringe of white coral sand and a blue lagoon. Turtle Island, tucked neatly into [...]
Love And Laughter in Fiji’s Taveuni by Sasha Bates
I am not a plane-lover. And I particularly do not like planes that hold only six people, are powered by ridiculously tiny propellers, and are under the control of a pilot who never stops laughing. So my flight to Taveuni, one of Fiji’s more northerly islands, did not start well and I cursed my husband [...]
Fiji Islands Island Of Nadi
Fiji Islands Island of Nadi Once a small community of farmers and shopkeepers, Nadi has mushroomed into a mini megalopolis of approximately 20,000 inhabitants – Fiji’s third-largest city. The area surrounding Nadi – a patchwork of sugar cane fields – has the highest concentration of hotels and resorts in the entire country. This is where [...]
Fiji Islands Island Of Yasawa
Fiji Islands Island of Yasawa Of all the Fiji islands the Yasawa (pronounced Yah-sow-wah) Group is the most archetypically `South Pacific’. Perhaps that is why both versions of Blue Lagoon were shot on location in the Yasawas. There are about 20 islands of volcanic origin which lie in a chain just off the northwest coast [...]
Fiji Islands : Island Of Vanua Levu
Fiji Islands : Island of Vanua Levu Vanua Levu (pronounce Va-new-ah Lay-vu), with a population of approximately 130,000, is the second largest island of the Fiji archipelago. With an area of 5538 square kilometers, it is slightly larger than half the size of Viti Levu. The island measures 180 kilometers long and has an average [...]
Fiji Islands : Island Of Taveuni
Fiji Islands : Island of Taveuni Taveuni (pronounced Tah-vee-ew-nee), the garden island of Fiji, is rugged, wet, verdant and pristine. It lies only seven kilometers off the southeast coast of Vanua Levu and is 42 kilometers long and averages about 11 kilometers wide. Taveuni is a archetypically beautiful tropical island, thick with vegetation and resplendent [...]
Fiji Islands : Island Of Suva
Fiji Islands : Island of Suva Suva can lay certain claim to being the largest and perhaps the most liveable city in the South Pacific outside New Zealand or Australia. The capital of Fiji since 1883, it is set on 15 sq km of peninsula adjacent to one of the finest naturally protected harbours in [...]
Christmas vacation on Fiji Islands
Your ultimate private, luxury Fiji resort awaits. Taveuni Palms is one of the world’s most exquisite luxury accommodation estates. Each luxury villa at Taveuni Palms sits on its own private acre of absolute beachfront and boasts its own private pool, beach and personal staff of seven. Your private beachfront retreat is a spacious two-bedroom, [...]