Fiji Experience

Why we visited it

Advantages: Paradise
Disadvantages: Cant find any

The island of Kiritimati (pronounced Ki-ris-mas’, or Christmas) is the largest of the 33 islands in the Pacific Ocean that make up the nation of Kiribati. The island has some 388 square kilometres of land area, which equals that all the other 32 islands of Kiribati combined. About 5,000 people live on Christmas Island, while the total population of all the islands of Kiribati is about 92,000. All but one of the islands of Kiribati are coral atolls. ...
...nation but also in terms of land area, the largest coral atoll in the world! In addition, Christmas Island is notable because of its proximity to the International Date Line. People there are among the first to experience the beginning of new calendar day, a new year and other annual observances, such as that of the death of Jesus Christ. Furthermore, this remote coral atoll is one of the mostly important breeding grounds for seabirds in the Tropics. ...

quan 06.08.2007 · Read full review
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Hop on in Fiji!

Advantages: great ride on the big green bus, lots of options
Disadvantages: hard to mix with people

Feejee experience is part of a tour group that also owns OzExperience and KiwiExperience (in Australia and New Zealand). FeejeeExperience operates in Fiji. The company is aimed at travellers with no specific age group in mind and as such you get a wide age range on the tours. All the buses are huge and green - you can't miss them!! The company isn't strictly a tour company as such. What Feejee Experience is is a hop-on hop-off bus with different ...
...buy your ticket either before you go or when you're there and after it's been activated on the first you you have a limit in which to use it - this is either 6 months or a year, I can't remember. The passes all include some activties although not many - the passes are pretty cheap. I think the fiji pass we bought which toured the main island was called the Hula Loop and was about £100. This included the activites and the transport, it also ensures ...

jennyf16 29.09.2009 · Read full review
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tropical paradise on the other side of the world

Advantages: tropical paradise, fantastic diving
Disadvantages: 2 days of flying to get there

fiji is everything you would imagine tropical paradise to be, lush palm fringed beaches surrounded by turquoise waters...... i arrived in fiji in the early hours of the morning, so my first impression was the sudden hot, humid environment that hit me as i left the air conditioned airport buildings, quite a change from the wintery weather i had left behind. I gradually started to build up a picture of the country on a 2 hour long coach ride from ...
...sky. i travelled to fiji to take part in a marine conservation holiday programme, with the company greenforce, so our stop in suva was only going to be a short one as all we were there to do was pick up essentials such as sulus (sarong type things) and bula dresses (the traditional dresses worn by fijian women for chruch). the journey to our island yadua, which is situated about an hour/hour and a half away from vanua levu and getting there involved ...

Amy_Coppock 31.01.2006 · Read full review
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  Paradox in Paradise

Advantages: “Things that happen here would seem….”
Disadvantages: “….Paradox in Paradise.” (Flecker)

...for the Day in the Fiji Times. This at least gave me something to think about as my wife and I lounged by the pool at the Tanoa International Hotel just outside Nadi. Having travelled half-way around the world in just two days to be there, I was inclined to think that we had indeed taken a short cut. The first visitors to these shores from Europe took years over the journey, and suffered on the way. Surely the earth was never meant to be so small ...
...Our choice of Fiji was not quite made at random. Having claimed on the basis of no personal experience whatsoever in my F-review that “Fiji is also among the world’s more agreeable places,” I felt the time had come to put it to the test, and also to put to the test the mixed reports we had heard, ranging from “pure paradise” to “already spoiled”. Finally, straddling as it does the 180th meridian. Fiji has the merit of being exactly halfway round ...

torr 08.03.2005 · Read full review
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Octopus Resort, Waya Island

Advantages: Cheap, great snorkelling and beaches, friendly people
Disadvantages: Long ride in a small boat

Octopus is consistantly rated as one of the best budget resorts in Fiji, and it's not hard to see why. Our beachfront bure (pronounced like puree) was lovely, traditionally built with a bathroom where the shower had no roof! It was very comfortable, and we didn't mind the resident lizards at all, because they ate the mosquitos! We had our own private hammock, big enough for two, strung between two palm trees, and at night we slept under a mossie ...
...our new towels were folded into a different pattern on the bed and our room was decorated with tropical flowers. We were lucky with weather - apparently it had been raining on and off for the previous six weeks, but we had glorious sunshine the whole week, just a couple of downpours at night. The beach was beautiful, long and sandy with lots of palm trees, and a backdrop of lush green hills. The snorkelling on the reef just off the beach was amazing, ...

Jaycey 22.10.2004 · Read full review
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