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Fiji International Date Line - Fiji Forum

Hello, I am commemorating a two-week vacation, a whole weekend in Fiji and a whole weekend on the cooking isles. Am I crossing the International Date Line and fly Fiji to prepare food for an island or the other way around? From Great Britain across the Atlantic, across the States and down to Fiji, you will have to pass the International Date Line before arriving there.

I don't think you'll ever get to the International Date Line. Fiji is the international date line, so no mater where you come from, if you travel between Fiji and Rarotonga ("Cook Islands"), you have to pass the date line.

Taveuni International Date Line |

I had an astonishing weekend on Fiji's lush Taveuni Island last weekend. Feeling like I spend a lot of my life just being idle (thanks to the drizzle at the beginning of the week), I'm amazed at how much action I could put in in just seven of them.

These are my favourite attractions from my trip to the Garden Island of Fiji: This snorkelling trip I took later in the day, but I put it first on my schedule because it was the most amazing snorkelling I have ever seen in MY-lifes. Afterwards we had our dinner at the shore of the abandoned island Korolevu.

In Taveuni I spend my first whole full days with a rather long tour along the coast, which was mistakenly called a "walk" (I thought it would be a pleasant one on the shore, but OH, how I had made a mistake.....). - The International Date Line. To take a lot of photos of me live at the same hour today and in the past.

Here you can find out more about my experiences at Taveuni's International Date Line. And not to forget the spectacular rain forest leaves and the magnificent sea view from the top of the hill... Either way, it should definitely be on the Taveuni Islands itinerary! In the past years I have written about all these feelings of the islands from my old country house, so it is very unique for me to see it first hands!

You can be sure the afternoons were not a total wastage - I used to venture into one of the most beautiful touristic sites on Taveuni Island: none other than the International Date Line, the fictional line of longitudes itself we've all been hearing about 180° from the Greenwich meridian in London, to the east or westward (as you wish).

It was both extreme fascination and overwhelming, it was a little strange to be there at the same moment as before. And I mean, I'm not just in" tomorrow" as well as in" past and present", because today is tomorrows in the past? Anyway, I found the International Date Line page much less overcrowded than I thought (I don't know why I imagined fighting masses of people trying to take sinfies as they crossed the line), characterized by a plain but succinct table on a ramp.

My cabbie, who was an avid tourist leader, said the International Date Line was moving to Taveuni Island at the turn of the year. I still can't quite comprehend why the line on a chart seems to twist so much.... Why the Cook Islands, along with some of the Fiji Islands, are throwing themselves into the past, while the overwhelming bulk of the Pacific is today?