How to plan a holiday in a picture-perfect archipelago in the South Pacific? Here are seven things to do in Fiji
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Fiji, a string of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, is nothing short of a tropical paradise. It isn’t easy to reach Fiji from India, yet it will be worth each one of the plentiful penny you will end up spending flying into the country. Fiji is also a history lesson—in the late 1800s, Indians were brought in by the British to work as indentured labourers on sugarcane plantations, constituting as much as one-third of its million-strong population.
Vanua Levy and Viti Levu are the two biggest islands and are home to the majority of Fijians. The capital city of Suva is in Viti Levu. It is a port city that is quite popular with the conference set. Viti Levu has three distinct areas frequented by tourists— the Coral Coast, the Sun Coast and the Pacific Harbour. They have resort options for all kinds of travellers, from backpackers to billionaires.
Many tourists tend to land at Nadi in the west of Viti Levu, not too far from the resort enclave of Denarau. People are ferried from Nadi to any of the picture-perfect islands. The Mamanuca Islands, off the coast of Nadi, are a strand of 20 beautiful islands that offer everything from protected reefs and wreck-diving to world-class surfing. A similar number of islands comprise the picturesque Yasawa Islands, off the Viti Levu coast. These two island chains have played host to a number
