FIJI · SOUTH PACIFIC
Island days, soft coral, the Bula welcome.
Day cruises out to the Mamanucas, reef snorkels and floating bars, jet-boat safaris into the highlands and the cultural days in between — from Nadi and Denarau across the islands offshore.
Only in Fiji
Three days you can only have here.
Beach clubs, snorkel trips and day cruises turn up everywhere warm. These three are Fiji’s own — the softest coral in the world, a bar anchored out on the reef, and a jet-boat run deep into the highlands. Build the rest of the trip around them.
Under the surface
The soft-coral capital.
Fiji is known the world over as the soft-coral capital, and the reefs earn it: walls of pink, orange and purple coral an arm’s length below the surface. Off Beqa Lagoon you can dive alongside bull sharks with no cage. Most of it is a half-day boat ride from the mainland.
- 1 Fijian Islands and Snorkel Full-Day Whales Tale Cruise including Beach BBQ Lunch
- 2 Ultimate Encounter Snorkel with Sharks in Fiji
- 3 Fiji: Ultimate Encounters Snorkel with Sharks and Lunch
Out on the reef
A bar moored over the reef.
Cloud 9 and Seventh Heaven are two-storey timber platforms anchored miles offshore, floating above live coral with nothing around them but turquoise water. You boat out, dive off the deck, eat a wood-fired pizza and watch the reef move beneath the floor. There is nowhere else quite like it.
- 1 Malamala Beach Club – Full Day
- 2 Fiji: Day Trip to Cloud 9 Floating Platform Including Food and Beverages
- 3 Fiji: Malamala Beach Club Private Island Day Pass & Transfer
Into the interior
A jet-boat up the highlands.
The coast is one Fiji; the green interior is another. A jet-boat skims up the Sigatoka or Navua river, past waterfalls and farming villages most visitors never reach, to a highland settlement that welcomes you with kava. For much of the interior, the river is the only road in.
- 1 Jet Boat Safari on the Sigatoka River
- 2 River Tubing Fiji, Navua River
- 3 River Tubing Fiji / Suva Shore Excursion Cruise Ship Passengers
The full Fijian day
If you do one thing in Fiji.
A traditional village, the reef and a lovo lunch in a single day. If Fiji has a signature day out, this is it.
The classics
Fiji's Most Popular Days Out
Island cruises, the Sigatoka jet boat, Cloud 9 and the highland villages. The days most travellers fly in for.
By place
Find your patch of Fiji.
Nadi for the gateway and the markets. Denarau for the marina and the boats out. The Mamanucas for the day islands. The Coral Coast for the scenic drive. Pacific Harbour for the rivers and the sharks.
By tour type
Or pick a way to spend the day.
A reef cruise if you want the water. A jet boat if you want the river. A floating bar if you want a day doing nothing at all. Ziplines, caves, waterfalls, mud pools and a cultural night if you want the rest.
The Fijian welcome
Bula. You’ll hear it before the baggage belt.
People come to Fiji for the reefs and the islands and go home talking about the welcome. Three things you’ll meet on almost any village or culture day:
- Sevusevu Hand the chief a bundle of kava root, share a bowl, and you’re family. The ceremony that opens every village visit.
- Meke Drums, spears and chant. The meke tells a Fijian story through dance, usually right before the feast.
- Lovo Pork, fish and dalo wrapped in banana leaf and cooked over hot stones buried in the ground. Sunday lunch, Fijian-style.
Out to the islands
A day on the water.
Catamarans, glass-bottom boats and the little sandbar islands off Denarau. Three island days we’d build a trip around.
When the light drops
A drink as the sun goes.
A catamaran, the open water and the sky over the Mamanucas turning pink. Our three favourites for once the day starts winding down.
Off the boats
When you've had enough sun and salt.
Ziplines over the canyon, quad bikes through the cane fields, waterfalls and warm mud pools inland from the coast. The three we’d save a dry day for.
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