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Fiji

Most visitors meet Fiji at Nadi, a working town on the dry western side of Viti Levu, and most of them are on their way to something blue. This guide books that something properly. Catamarans leave Port Denarau every morning for the Mamanuca islands and the floating bar of Cloud 9, for the sand, snorkelling and semi-submersible of South Sea Island, for a private beach club at Malamala, and for the longer run to the Yasawas. Divers get certified-diver trips on the Mamanuca reefs. On land the Sabeto valley offers hot springs and a volcanic mud pool beside the Garden of the Sleeping Giant, the Sigatoka valley adds a jet-boat safari and the Sigatoka Sand Dunes National Park, and a village visit at Viseisei puts the culture of the islands in context. Then it matches you to a base, from the French-Fijian polish of the Sofitel and the family-friendly Hilton and Radisson Blu on Denarau, to a practical airport hotel and a beachfront budget favourite at Wailoaloa, because in Fiji where you sleep decides how fast you reach the water.