Suva, Capital of Fiji on Viti Levu Island:

Is a beautiful harbor city built on a peninsula reaching out into the sea. It's tall modern buildings are beautifully balanced by a rich traditional colonial architecture. Suva is perched on a hilly peninsula between Laucala Bay and Suva Harbor in the southeast corner of Viti Levu. The mountains north and west catch the southeast trade winds, producing moist conditions year round. Suva began as a Victorian village with frame houses and stores along the beachfront. Much of its past still survives and there are many small, quaint, wooden bungalows in the old section which sit in juxtaposition to the modern offices and shopping plazas. Suva is the only place in Fiji where you'll see buildings taller than palm trees. Throughout the city are colorful flowering gardens and waving palm trees. On Sundays it's well worth attending church to hear the choir singing which is magnificent. Most churches have services in English, but none compare with the 1,000 strong Fijian service at Centenary Methodist Church on Stewart Street. A vital center, Suva offers a great selection of restaurants offering Chinese, Indian, traditional Fijian and European cuisine.

The Fiji Museum:

Located in the heart of Suva's botanical gardens. The Fiji Museum holds a remarkable collection which includes archaeological material dating back 3,500 years and cultural objects representing both Fiji's indigenous inhabitants and other communities that have settled in the island group over the past 100 years. For further information please visit:
www.fijimuseum.org.fj

Suva Municipal Market:

A must-see for its exotic fruits and vegetables, kava, seafood, and spices. It has an exciting dors hawk fish, meat, vegetables, fruit, coconut oil and nearly everything else that a Fijian household might need. Some sections (upstairs) deal entirely with kava root (both whole and ground). Other merchants sell Indian spices exclusively, display freshly caught shellfish, sell tomatoes or offer bundles of dalo (taro root). A section of new kiosks toward the bus station is the place to try `Indian sweets', many of which are not sweet at all, but rather are highly spiced and tasty snacks. There is also a `yaqona saloon' outdoors at the wharf end of the market dedicated solely to yaqona tipplers. As you walk by, someone may call over, urging you to have a bowl. Should you take them up on it, for a dollar buy a round for the house, which is the customary reciprocal thing to do.

Nadi:

Is the fastest-growing part of Fiji. New homes, department stores, and shopping centers have been popping up all along the 5 1/2 miles (9km) of the traffic-heavy Queen's Road between the airport and Nadi Town, a 7-block strip lined with a plethora of duty-free, handcraft, souvenir, and other shops. The predominately Indo-Fijian town has seen some improvement in recent years. The main drag has been spruced up with planter boxes, big stores now offer fixed prices and polite clerks, and restaurants provide some of the finest dining in the South Pacific. Although the area has a multitude of activities to keep you busy, for many visitors Nadi is primarily a stop on the way to other, more beautiful, parts of Fiji. You can easily get to anywhere in Fiji from here, but the lagoon off Nadi is usually murky from runoff coming from the area's sugar cane fields, so this is not the best place in Fiji for a beach vacation. Nadi is a good place to organize activities - anything from diving, golf, horse riding and rafting to joy-riding in a jet-boat or light plane.

Sri Siva Subramaniya Swami Temple:

Located at the southern end of the main street in Nadi is quite interesting and visitors are welcome (but asked not to have consumed either alcohol or non-vegetarian food that day) For more information please visit:
http://murugan.org/research/goundar.htm