Lautoka, Fiji Travel Blogs

Lautoka
Aug 24, 2007

Trip to Lautoka and back to Nadi

Bula!
Feb 15, 2006

... think I might do my independent study project on yaqona and its significance and the recent abuses of it. Today we're in Lautoka, one of two cities on this island. We visited a school for physically disabled children earlier and now we're in the city. ...

Fiji
Apr 27, 2003

... Den Tauchkurs habe ich tatsaechlich bestanden und bin jetzt "PADI international open water diver".  Das Riffleben vor Fiji war wie im Fersehen, viele bunte Fische, Seeschnecken und -sterne, Schwaemme, Anemonen und Korallen unterschiedlichster Textur ...

Fiji Time
Mar 16, 2008 (1 photos)

... cruise. We duly landed at Nadi airport and took a short taxi ride to the handily placed First Landing Resort just south of Lautoka on the coast.   The first thing you notice about Fiji is the amazing welcome from the people. If there is a happier ...

Diving and Dipping
Sep 9, 2008 (8 photos)

... metres. After that, the resort boat was waiting to take just Gordon and me to a small harbour from where we got a taxi into Lautoka, picking up the driver's police officer wife en route. I was still in wet shorts, so the plan was to find a bar where I ...

Mainland Fiji
Sep 25, 2006 (7 photos)

... of the main island of Viti Levu and are a big holiday destination with beaches and reefs that you would normally associate with Fiji. We stopped at an anchorage in a semi-enclosed bay and anchored next to a huge limestone island, which had great caves we ...

Time to go back to Musket Cove
Sep 26, 2008 (9 photos)

It is time to go, nothing but hunting for things on our list all week. I am ready to go back to clean aired Musket Cove. the sugar cane factory was broken here for a few days but it is working again and ash is falling everywhere. It has been nice seeing ...

Last Night in Lautoka
Sep 26, 2008 (8 photos)

... it off for $60 Fijian, what a rip off. As a thanks to our Peace Corp friends we treated them to pizza and a fun match of UNO. Lautoka was fun but it is time to head back to Musket and get out of Fiji. We have one day to get out or we are illegal.

Four Days without a Shower
Sep 24, 2008 (5 photos)

... again and allow us to use her laundry facilities, which is fantastic because they charge by the Kilo for laundry.  Pulling up to Lautoka was creepy. We had to anchor where the container ships were. John dropped me off on the dock and went back for Kim ...

Fiji - the Friendliest Place on Earth
Jul 7, 2004 (16 photos)

... lazing around on isolated beach front. We have now moved on to another small island just a kilometer off of Lautoka (the second largest city in Fiji). Trust me when I say...THIS is our indulgence! We booked a traditional Fijian bure - which is basically ...

Valentine's Day
Feb 14, 2008

Cruising the South Pacific from Fiji on our way to new Zealand and celbebrating Valentine's Day.

MY FIJIAN FAMILY
Jul 1, 1999 (5 photos)

... -year-old Nicholas, Metta's son who came from Metta's house to hang out with me. He walked me into their town, Lautoka. On unpaved roads, the country's indigenous half of the population walked among the subcontinental-Indian half. Most of the guys wore ...

Nabua Lodge go back to Sunset Waya
Sep 24, 2009

HangoverJ But after I eat breakfast I goes a lot better. I lie just in the hang mat and wait that the transfer boat arrive. In sunset waya, there were still Mickey and Oli and today is also Mickey's birthday so we had a big birthday party.

Sunset Waya
Sep 25, 2009

It was strange, but today left everybody from the Island. 16 people and just 2 arrived. Becky and Mariah. So it was more a see again.

Sunset Waya Alone
Sep 26, 2009

Today I was the only guest on the Island, because Mariah and Becky left and nobody arrived. So I was the special guest so I visited the village, helped to bring a huge fish on land and all the small staff.

Fiji
Feb 12, 2008

Another beautiful small island with a tranquil, laid back way of life.  The sea in this area is gorgeous hues of blue.

Lautoka
Oct 7, 2008 (5 photos)

... life a bit in order to incorporate that in because I didn't know if that included these folks or was just his villagers. Went into LAutoka with Kiva, where she bought some food. All the stuff in the mart was the same as it is in Aus. The town was unlike ...

Clear Waters, Clear Skys
Nov 5, 2009 (3 photos)

So I left Australia for now. But I wasn't to upset because next stop was Fiji! So we flew to Nandi which is on the main island. We stayed one day and night at the Sofitel Hotel. As I stayed in Nandi I noticed how undeveloped there country was. I ...

Birthday at Anchorage
Jul 16, 2008 (6 photos)

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FIJI
Mar 31, 2008

After a 32 hour I finally arrived in Fiji!!! The humidity really hits you as you get off the plane! Rich, one of the crew members came to collect me with one of the guys - Jonnie, but he was there for his mate, who he was going to go island hopping with. ...

Lautoka
Nov 26, 2004

Lautoka is by far the nicest city, at least during daylight. Adam's tip (Lautoka Hotel) is golden. The highlands are going to happen. It took some serious bargaining to get half the deal that my colleague Adam got, but I think I did well enough. Just keep ...

Midlife Crisis on Nanau-I-Ra
Sep 25, 2006 (16 photos)

... this is the case I'll probably never find out. Each town that we reached seemed to be pretty much the same (Ba, Lautoka and Raki Raki) just market towns servicing the little villages that surround them although we didn't really get off the bus much. ...

Fiji Day 7
Feb 15, 2006 (10 photos)

... this village so we got to see his house but he was not there. After the village Ram then took us to Lautoka, the second largest city in Fiji. This town was a bit more bustling than downtown Nadi but still much of the same shops and restaurants. We ate at ...

The Big Smoke
Jan 30, 1995

January 30 to February 1, Lautoka Lautoka is the second largest city in Fiji and, like Nadi, is in the Province of Ba on the west side of Viti Levu. Lautoka is also known as "Sugar City" due to the prominence of sugar cane and sugar processing in the area ...