Kadavu, Lau & Moala Groups
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©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd Kadavu, Lau & Moala Groups POP 20,850 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 (p 187 ) 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 (p 187 ) guesthouses and it takes lots of planning just to fi gure out » Matava (p 185 ) how to get there and back. » Papageno Eco-Resort (p 185 ) » Koro Makawa (p 187 ) 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. 182 GROUPS GROUPS MOALA MOALA & & LAU LAU KADAVU, KADAVU, Kadavu, Lau & Moala Groups HighlightsGROUPS MOALA & LAU KADAVU, 1 Diving till you can dive no life on the edge of the Great Tamarillo Sea Kayaking 5 Spotting yet another noisy 7 Reaching the turquoise more on the seemingly endless Astrolabe Reef (p 185 ) but gorgeously scarlet-coloured waters of the rarely visited and forever spectacular Great 3 Sea kayaking to remote 4 Surfi ng the mystic yet Kadavu musk parrot (p 185 ) Lau Group (p 190 ), and living Astrolabe Reef (p 186 ) shores of white sand hard-to-get-to break at Cape 6 Visiting villages around the slow village life 2 Fighting then reeling in and friendly villages, all Washington (p 184 ) your Kadavu resort (p 185 ) 8 Partying like a Polynesian the biggest fi sh (p 184 ) of your inaccessible by car, with at the Fara Festival (p 189 ) Yadua Savusavu Somosomo Laucala Rotuma VANUA LEVU Qamea Wailagi 0 50 km Nabouwalu TAVEUNI Lala 0 30 miles YASAWA Naitaba GROUP Malima Bligh Water Namenalala Nanuka Passage Avea Yacata Kanacea Vanua Balavu Koro Nukutolu Kaibu Susui Tavua Makogai Namalata Munia Rakiraki Vatu Vara Mago Ba Dama LOMAIVITI NORTHERN Katafaga GROUP MAMANUCA Lautoka Levuka LAU Tuvuca GROUP Ovalau Nairai Nadi VITI LEVU Batiki Cicia Nayau Lau Group Bau Nausori Gau K O R O S E A Sigatoka SUVA Lakeba Yanuca Aiwa Vanua Vatu S O U T H Beqa Oneata P A C I F I C Vatulele O C E A N Dravuni Moala Ororua Moce Buliya Komo KADAVU Tavu Na Sici GROUP Ono Vuaqava Namaku-i-Lau MOALA Nuvutu-i-Ra Kavala Great Totoya Bay Astrolabe GROUP Kabara Yogasa Vunisea Reef Nuvutu-i-Loma Kadavu SOUTHERN Cape Washington Tamarillo LAU Sea Kayaking Ogea Levu Matuku Fulaga.