Waitabu Marine Park Blog

Waitabu Marine Park : This area of Taveuni has just been awarded the "International British Airways Eco-Tourism Award" of the year. You are picked up and driven up to the eastern side of the island where you will be welcomed into Waitabu village life with morning tea. This 5-hour journey includes a bamboo "bili-bili" raft trip, snorkeling, and am/pm tea in the village with kava ceremony, local island music and roundtrip transport. This trip is a great cultural experience combined with a day of adventure! Fiji Activities | Fiji Adventure Travel | Taveuni Palms Resort Fiji

Waitabu Marine Park This area of Taveuni has recently been awarded the “International British Airways Eco-Tourism Award” The Waitabu Villagers will welcome you, and are proud of this marine and cultural experience they have worked so hard to establish. The 5-hour visit is a marvellous cultural experience of Fijian village life. The visit includes round trip transport, morning and afternoon tea in the village, snorkelling in the marine reserve , kava ceremony, local island dance and song, and to top it all; a trip up the river on a bamboo “Bilibili” raft. This is a 20-minute ride by taxi from the resort. Taveuni Island Resort & Spa - Fiji

The east coast is wild and mostly inaccessible due to steep cliffs and much of the land is protected by Bouma National Heritage Park. Access to the park is from the north-east coast, with the main attraction being the Tavoro Falls (three lovely waterfalls between 10 minutes and an hour walk from the main road). The first waterfall is only a five minute flat stroll from the road and has excellent swimming and an indent behind the falls from which you can jump through the waterfall into the pool beneath. The second waterfall is a steep climb through tropical rainforest along a well maintained trail, taking about 20-minutes. This is the highest of the three falls at about 100 feet. The third fall requires wading through a river assisted by a rope and is another 30 minutes higher up the valley. Beyond, it is possible to follow the stream further into the rain forest and venture past a series of smaller falls. Also within the Bouma Park is Waitabu Marine Park , set alongside a picture...

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Visit the Waitabu Marine Park on Taveuni Island's rain forested Eastern Coast where the people of Waitabu Village offer visitors two tours. One tour takes you on an open outboard powered skiff for a 2-hour snorkelling excursion. The other tour takes you to snorkelling sites on a Bilibili or traditional Fijian bamboo raft. Visitors to the Park and weather and tide permitting and incur round-trip boat and car transfer charges; minimum 4 people FJD115 per person; minimum 6 people FJD75 per person. In addition, an entrance fee is payable at the Park Ranger's office. Matangi Private Island Resort

The authors conducted over 1,100 interviews with local residents from the four sites - each of which had been picked because of the perceived benefits of its conservation projects - to determine what impact the MPAs had had on their economic status and overall quality of life. The overwhelmingly positive response was best articulated by a Fijian community leader, who explained that, "The marine protected area is like a bank to the people. Opening more branches of the bank in developing countries can contribute to coastal poverty reduction." How Better Conservation Measures Can Help Reduce Poverty : TreeHugger

Posted January 19th, 2008 by oceanic in Expeditions Date: 08/26/2008 Snorkeling The Fijian Archipelago encompasses one of the most extensive coral reef systems in the world. , The waters host an extraordinary variety of marinelife, including over 1,200 varieties of fish and countless invertebrates. This program offers snorkeling Fiji's spectacularly colorful coral communities, and includes an introduction to island ecology and Fijian village life. Our snorkeling expedition begins on the island of Taveuni. Shrouded in tropical forests and rich volcanic soils, Taveuni is known as “the Garden Island” of Fiji. Our island resort offers views over the Somosomo Strait which contains extensive coral reefs including the 32-kilometer "Rainbow Reef". We enjoy daily snorkel excursions by private boat in the company of our experienced marine naturalist. Most snorkel sites are within 15 minutes of the resort. Korolevu Island is just 5 minutes by boat from the re...