New travel consultancy to support
FijiBure.com travellers
Bula
I have just returned from another very successful trip to Fiji.
While there I got to meet several guests who were staying at such exotic locations as our villages at Malevu and Naroro.
Firstly to business, I can now confirm that the Fijian Government has licensed and approved the villages participating in FijiBure.com. This has never been an issue to us but became one following some misinformation aired in the Australian tabloid media about village homestays in Fiji.
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New travel consultancy to support
FijiBure.com travellers
The great news is we now have travel consultants from a Nadi International Airport based travel agency ready to "meet and greet" our homestay guests on arrival in Fiji.
In keeping with our policy to support indigenous Fijian business the travel agency is owned and managed by the well known Speight family.
Image right: Sam Speight snr with Scott Balson at Island Travel Tours at Nadi Airport
The travel agency Island Travel Tours will be able to help you on the ground in Fiji and organise all your travel and accommodation needs around your village homestay adventures. Bookings for village homestays will continue to be co-ordinated through this web site.
Simon and Judith, our hosts at Namatakula, are understandably very proud parents. Their Form Five son, Borro, (seen right) has been selected as head boy of the Nasikawa Vision College - over a whole year of Form Six students. Borro intends to be a doctor and is well on his way to achieving this goal.
Still on Namatakula, I was able to inspect the guest house and was delighted to see how the money from FijiBure.com has enabled Simon and Judith to complete the bottom floor of this fine building and install electricity through the building.
Image left: Mounted fans are a
feature of the new bedrooms in the guesthouse at Namatakula
We have four more qualified villages now waiting to join FijiBure.com. Unfortunately, because of time constraints, I could not visit them while I was in Fiji last week.
The villages include two in the province of Talevu, where Sam Speight (jnr) is the local Member of Parliament. The other two villages are to the north on a tiny island just off Vanua Levu. You will love the transport to Vanua Levu - a night on a large boat (that takes 300 people) and costs just F$70 per person for a cabin! The boat leaves Suva just before nightfall and arrives at Vanua Levu the next morning.
Vinaka vakalevu
Seganalega Marau!
Scott Balson