Namuana Village Kadavu

Visit of turtles in the village Namuana

Each year we welcome visitors to our village. We have a turtle walk and before we go to the turtle, we have a cava ritual and tell about the cap. Then, we get to the point and the girls play a specific tune - a folk tune and dancing, and the tortoises will show up.

These tortoises were once people. You snorkeled off the coast of our neighbouring village and were captured by fishers and put in their boats. Only way for her to get away was to turn into tortoises. Melting through the barge and when they were back in the sea, they turned into tortoises and floated all the way back to our village, to the point (see picture on the right).

Here we call the tortoises.

Kadavu, Fiji travel guide

The Kadavu (pronounced Kahn-da-voo) has about 8700 inhabitants and is located only 88 kilometres southwards of Suva. The Kadavu is about 48 km long and ranges in width from 365 m to 13 km. It covers an area of 411 km2, slightly less than Taveuni. The Kadavu has several high peaks and many steep rocks.

To put it briefly, it is a jagged islet with few streets, which makes the sea taxi the most important means of transport. There is an international airfield, a new administrative centre and a new clinic at the east end of the village of Vunisea. Please be aware that most of Kadavu's resort are not close to the airfield - you will need to be picked up and brought to your final destinations in small boats for another 30 to 60 mins.

Do Not Miss Diving is definitely the first grade on this isle and all resort have a diving facility. Visiting a village - accommodation can be arranged at some of the resort locations. In spite of its close vicinity to the centre of the Viti Levu community, the Kadavu people are very traditional. Maybe the reason for the conservationism is the difficulties of bypassing the islands and the resulting isolating of the towns.

Although secluded, Kadavu is known to scuba diving enthusiasts for its abundance of underwater wildlife, especially in the astrolabe. Kadavu parrot, now a conservation area, is easy to observe. In the last five to ten years, Kadavu has developed a number of thin objects in the lower and middle price segment.

Kadavu is a good choice for those who want to get away from the traditional Nadi region tourism attractions. You can reach Kadavu by plane from Nadi and Suva. Kadavu group is vulcanic, the principal one is Kadavu, which is 93 km long and varying in width from several hundred meters to 13 km.

Its coastlines are deep and some coves bite so far into the country that they almost part it. It has been proposed by a geography that the form of Kadavu is similar to that of a belly, with the scalp, chest and belly connected by small midriff. Vunisea (where the administration centre is located), Namalata Bay and Galoa Harbor are only divided by a sand aisle a few metres above the surface; and at Vunisea, the ends of Daku Bay and Soso Bay are within 1100 metres, with only a low crest between them.

The same characteristics occur elsewhere on the Kadavu coast above the Dive Kadavu Resortdegree; the form and layout of these coves suggest that they are submerged underwater. The Kadavu is craggy and its hills are high for such a small isle. The coastlines are usually lined with hard corals, the best known being the 48 km long bend of the Great Astrolabe Reef at the north expanse of Kadavu.

There are several major areas of the islands. Heading westwards from this summit, a skid leads to Cape Washington - a cliff covered by a beacon - and extends into an area that ends in a precipitous crossroads with views of the port of Galoa. Daviqele, one of Fiji's most prettiest towns, is located in this area.

Yawe is the name of the north part of this area, famous for its large potteries, which are still made by the wives of the village of Nalotu. The same area is home to the village of Namuana, home to the humans who can call tortoises from the ocean. Across the aisle on the south side is the port of Galoa, and in the port is the 2-1/2 km long island of Galoa (after which the port was named).

At the most southerly point of this part of the isle is a small isle, Tawadromu, where once lived an Indian - the only member of his species in the diverse populations of that time. Continuing along the south coastline is the Naceva area, perhaps the most unspoilt and pristine in the country, with woods, mangroves along the water's edges, many falls and an ubiquitous fog that hangs over the hills.

Ono archipelago, surrounded by the Great Astrolabe Reef, offers great angling and scubaiving. Cruisers sometimes stop on Dravuni Island, perhaps because it has great sandy beach.