Nausori: the gateway to Suva and the Fiji Islands

A few kilometers from the capital Suva, Nausori remains the starting point to explore the main island of Viti Levu and its rainforests.

The center, gateway to Suva and the Fiji Islands, can be comfortably visited by taxi or local bus.

The Rewa River, the longest in Fiji, crosses Nausori and is still today used to transport sugarcane towards the sugar refineries of the region.

A few minutes away, the nearby Suva, capital of Fiji, hosts the Museum of Fiji with traditional war canoes and remains of Polynesian and Melanesian culture.

Heading inland you reach the Colo-i-Suva Forest Park, a rainforest reserve with natural pools fed by waterfalls.

As evening approaches, villages along the Rewa river offer traditional kava ceremonies, a ritual beverage at the centre of Fijian social life.

The Rewa River, navigable for much of its course, remains the primary river route to the agricultural interior of Viti Levu, still crucial for the sugar cane economy today.

The kava ceremony, a ritual beverage derived from the root of a plant in the pepper family, remains a central element of Fijian hospitality and traditional social hierarchy.