Taveuni Palms Resort
Travel Blogs from Taveuni Island
Visit to a village
... and although it's 27c it still feels a little chilly. Think I'll go play volley ball to warm up. They seem to have lost the seasons like the UK as they don't know what one day to the next will be but it's still warmer than home. The evening is spent listening to out hosts sing and everyone drinking kava, it's the same every night, such a simple life, it's lovely. The stars are amazing I've never seen anything like ...
EN Taveuni paradise
... smashed on the sharp coral reef. On Friday and Saturday we were also invited for Kava sessions in the village which we accepted. It was very interesting to see how local people live. Lavena has got 500 people and I think 200 of them are ...
Bula!
... the idea over the next 5 days was for me to dive in the mornings and Stacey would ensure her tan didn’t fade too much before heading home. I headed off to the dive shop and before long I was in the water drifting along one of Fiji’s premier dive sites ‘The Great White Wall’, it quickly became apparent that diving in Fiji was going to be a special experience. The Great White Wall is an enormous underwater rock face covered in white coral ...
Feeling the Force
... on the subject, Farm to Fork, hoping to hear back but only hoping. 12 hours later as I enjoyed my break in my cabin, on a yacht in the remote islands of Tonga, I got a reply, looked up a recommended book on Amazon and in five minutes it was downloaded onto my kindle. A process that would have taken weeks if not months 20 years ago, I completed while lying in my bunk on my break. Blows my mind. Morale of the entry, I love my life!!! ...
Diving on The Rainbow Reef
... I was told to turn around. About half a metre away from me was quite big Grey Reef Shark, and yes I was a bit scared! I did a bit of a double take. In Fiji, you can go Shark Diving, where you feed the sharks that are up to 4m long. They are tigers and bull sharks; I thought about doing this but after my reaction to the reef shark up close I decided it wasn't for me after all! The current had picked up now, and it got to the point where we could no longer control where ...
Amenities
- Room service
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Beach
- Restaurant
- Swimming pool