Introduction
Neither the likelihood of frequent showers nor an occasional deluge should discourage you from visiting Suva, Fiji's vibrant, sophisticated capital city. Grab your umbrella and wander along its broad avenues lined with grand colonial buildings and orderly parks left over from the British Empire. Its streets will be crowded with Fijians, Indians, Chinese, Europeans, Polynesians, and people of various other ancestries.
Suva sprawls over a hilly, 26 sq. km (10 sq. mile) peninsula jutting like a thumb from southeastern Viti Levu. To the east lies windswept Laucala Bay and to the west, Suva's busy harbor and the suburbs of Lami Town and Walu Bay.
Jungle-draped mountains rise to heights of more than 1,200m (4,000 ft.) on the mainland to the north, high enough to condense moisture from the prevailing southeast trade winds and create the damp climate cloaking the city in lush green foliage year-round.
Suva was a typical Fijian village in 1870, when the Polynesia Company sent a...
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Fiji Museum
You'll see a marvelous collection of war clubs, cannibal forks, tanoa bowls, shell jewelry, and other relics in this excellent museum. Although...
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Government Handicraft Centre
Founded in 1974 to continue and promote Fiji's handicrafts, this shop has a limited selection of authentic merchandise (no war clubs carved in...
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Suva Municipal Market
A vast array of tropical produce is offered for sale at Suva's main supplier of food, the largest and most lively market in Fiji. If they aren't...
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