Adventure and Cultural Travel with a Sustainable Twist
After spending a week in Fiji, we were due to fly out on a Saturday and get home on Sunday. The day started out innocuously enough: Ziplining In the morning, we went ziplining with Zip Fiji – they have a few locations all over Fiji but this one in Nadi Continue Reading
International visitors to Fiji will fly into Nadi International Airport, but it’s essentially a fairly small and dusty town. We hadn’t planned to spend much time there at all, but ended up spending about 3 days there as Uprising Resort (where we were staying in Pacific Harbour) was fully booked Continue Reading
Although many divers visiting Fiji would probably be most interested in the shark dives, the more conventional dives are nothing to sniff at either. Diving in Nadi and elsewhere in Fiji has its own non-shark-related charms. Fish highlights We saw this endangered humphead wrasse (aka Napoleon wrasse) during the Continue Reading
During my recent trip to Fiji, we went on shark dives with 3 dive centres, and saw a great variety of the sharks of Fiji. Apart from the more common whitetip and blacktip reef sharks, we also saw sicklefin lemon sharks, tawny nurse sharks, bull sharks, and more! This is Continue Reading
I’m going to dive right in (pun totally intended): shark dives are a rather controversial topic. There are those who believe that we shouldn’t mess with the marine ecosystem or sharks’ natural behaviour by feeding them. In general, I wholeheartedly agree. But Fiji shark dives, for me, are an exception. Continue Reading
When I told a friend that I was visiting Fiji, she responded, “You sure visit a lot of exotic places!” Given that what we consider “exotic” is largely determined by where we live (Bali, for example, is a long weekend trip for us in Singapore), that’s certainly been the case Continue Reading