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Why Go Kadavu Group ...... 183 This is where you wish you were right now. Remote and Kadavu...... 185 authentic yet easily accessed from Viti Levu and home to Lau & Moala Groups..... 188 comfortable, ecofriendly resorts, Kadavu blends Fiji’s best Lau Group ...... 190 assets. As your plane lands on a tiny airstrip surrounded by luminescent sea, volcanic peaks and intense forest, you’ll Vanua Balavu ...... 190 feel like an adventurer. Your fl ight will be followed by a long, Moala Group ...... 192 and sometimes bumpy, boat ride to your resort past prehis- toric-looking coves chirping with rare birds and fringed by the world’s fourth-largest barrier reef. Best Places to Meanwhile, the Lau and Moala Groups are for those who Stay have the time and endurance to seek out even more pristine paradises. Think turquoise waters, hardly touched jungle » Oneta Resort (p187 ) and traditional villages worthy of a BBC documentary. Yet of » Mai Dive Astrolabe Reef the group’s 30 inhabited islands there are only two humble Resort (p187 ) guesthouses and it takes lots of planning just to fi gure out » Matava (p185 ) how to get there and back. » Papageno Eco-Resort (p 185 ) » Koro Makawa (p187 ) When to Go Kadavu Best Dive Sites °C/°F Te m p Rainfall inches/mm 40/104 16/400 » Naiqoro Passage (p 186 ) » 12/300 Manta Reef (p 183 ) 30/86
» Eagle Rock (p 186 ) 8/200 » Yellow Wall (p 183 ) 20/68 4/100 » Broken Stone (p 186 ) » 10/50 0 Pacific Voyager (p 183 ) J FDNOSAJJMAM
Nov–Apr Ocean Aug & Sep May–Oct South- and air tempera- Usually the best east trade winds tures are the hot- time for dive vis- over Great As- test and there’s ibility and cooler trolabe Reef can the highest temperatures. make it difficult to chance of rain. dive the exterior.
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