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Featured Book Moon Fiji |
‘FIJI BABY’This is what locals call Fiji Bitter (beer) so if someone asks you if you’d like a Fiji Baby it’s not a local adoption scam but an offer of a drink. The beer is lighter than most Australian and New Zealand beers (not unlike an American Bud with taste). It suits the tropics but international brand beers are also readily available.>Top
FIJIAN RESORT(see Shangri-la Fijian)>Top
FIJI MOCAMBO HOTELThe Mocambo is handy for a night for late arrivals or early departures. It’s a nice enough place with air-conditioned rooms, swimming pool and a choice of dining/drinking options but I wouldn’t make it my main destination for a holiday. It’s only a few minutes to the airport and close to Nadi. There’s also a 9 hole golf course, floodlit tennis court and, on my last visit the was a karaoke bar that was open from 6:00pm till 6:00am. I didn’t go inside because, to me, it’s as entertaining as folding a fitted sheet.>Top
FIRST LANDING RESORTFirst Landing won the 2002 Fiji Excellence in Tourism award for Quality Accommodation so it must be doing something right. It is located on the mainland between Nadi and Lautoka (15kms from Nadi). It’s a small, owner-operate resort with the only white sand beach in the Nadi area - probably the reason the first visitors chose this place to come ashore some 3500 years ago. Although the beach is good by Nadi standards, it’s nothing compared to the beaches and reefs available at the Mamanuca island resorts.>Top
FISHINGThe reef fishing and game fishing can be excellent and many resorts offer both. Hand line fishing is usually included as a free activity and there will be a charge for game fishing. If you do go game fishing, the boat will own the catch and it will probably be directed to the resort kitchen. If you catch a few, you way want to suggest that the local crew members take some for their village. On one fishing outing we pulled in some fine Spanish Mackeral (one was gaffed mid-air after getting off the hook - the local boys know their stuff!) and the resort was fine about sharing the catch>Top
FLAGThe Fijian flag has a pretty light blue background with a reminder of the countries colonial past - the Union Jack top left. The Fijian shield is centred on the outer side of the flag. There’s a yellow heraldic lion holding a cocoa pod (not a rugby ball) above four sections separated by the cross of St George. The four sections have sugarcane, a palm tree, a bunch of bananas and a white dove.>Top
FOOTBALLRugby is the preferred football (you will find soccer as well). The Fijians are masters of the running game and throw the ball about with abandon. The tackling and serious scrumming lets them down. Because many players grow up playing barefoot (spreads the feet wide), it can be difficult for players competing at international level to get boots to fit. If you join in a game of touch rugby at a resort, you will know why the Fijians are so good at running rugby - they have a one tip rule (if you are touched, the other side gets possession of the ball), so you see overhead and wild passes that have to be seen to be believed.>Top
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