Fiji Travel Backpacker & Accommodation Guide
Fiji Travel Guide
Viti Levu - Nadi Airport - Mamanuca Islands - Yasawa Islands - Vanua Levu - Taveuni - Kadavu - Ovalau
Fiji Backpacking Guide - Fiji Accommodation Guide
Fiji Activities Guide
Scuba Diving - Surfing - Kayaking - Fishing - Hiking - Village Visits - Tours & Sightseeing
Fiji Village Visits & Homestays
Fiji
is well positioned as a unique eco tour destination, with Fiji village based tourism and marine biology its focus.
Visiting a Fijian village is often the highlight of many holiday-makers and top on the tales of hardened travellers. Although there are no specific eco tour village packages, most resorts, especially those in the Yasawa Islands, Kadavu, Ovalau and Taveuni can organize village visits, plantation tours and guided hikes. With a traditional subsistence based community, visiting a village is more often than not an overwhelmingly friendly travel experience. Apart from relishing the tourist orientated yaqona ceremony, travellers can usually visit people’s homes, sample foods, learn to weave, go fishing and generally immerse themselves into daily Fijian life.
Several villages have set up community resorts, usually located at the parameters of the village so as not to disrupt village affairs. The best of these include Bayside Resort, Yalobi Village on Waya in the Yasawa Islands; Bulou’s outside Navala in the Viti Levu highlands; Silana’s on the north coast of Ovalau; Lavena Lodge in the Bouma National Heritage Park on Taveuni; Paula’s on Kioa Island off Vanua Levu; and Rotuma Homestay in the outer Polynesian Island of Rotuma. For a more thorough introduction into Fijian life, consider joining one of the internationally organised gap-year education programs where you assist in teaching at a remote village school and live with the people.
Boasting numerous diverse and unchartered coral reefs,
Fiji
is also the focus for several global institutions conducting scientific marine research. It’s possible to join one of these groups on a working holiday, volunteering in research and gathering information, often on remote islands.
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