I'm sure Fiji is on the bucketlist for everyone, cause it has that huge great 5 stars resorts and that remote islands where you can live happily with locals. So, too much to write about this country! Gonna start with a not so adventurer beautiful thing - The Garden of the Sleeping Giant, located in the foothills of the Nausori Highlands. Here, you can easily spend a number of hours wandering past landscaped
lawns, around lily ponds with trickling fountains and croaking frogs,
and along canopy-covered boardwalks and paths winding through the
rainforest, all the while gawking at over 2,000 varieties of Asian
orchids and Cattelya hybrids. It is as visually stunning as it sounds.
Plus, it changes with the seasons. Peak flowering seasons are June to July and November to December, but expect a brilliant display year-round. And... the best thing of the garden... The Sleeping Giant almost Moana style ahah! Totally worth a visit this one. You don't find it somewhere else!!
In 1965, Burr purchased Naitauba, a private island in the Lau group off
the northeast coast of Fiji’s main isle of Viti Levu. He also bought and
meticulously landscaped a South Seas-style plantation house just 20
minutes by road north from the Nadi airport. But it was not until 1977
that he acquired and opened a 20-hectare (50-acre) nursery to hybridize
orchids after looking for the best possible climate for them to
flourish. That is what is now known as the Garden of the Sleeping
Giant. With his partner, Robert Benevides, Burr hybridized an estimated
1,500 orchid varieties before leaving Fiji in 1983. He even named one of
the orchids for Barbara Hale, the actress who played his secretary,
Della Street, in the Perry Mason series.
How to visit:
You'll find this garden on the island of Viti Levu, just about a 10- to
15-minute drive north of central Nadi. It's open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Monday through Saturday and 9 a.m. to noon on Sunday. Tickets cost FJ$18
for adults and FJ$9 for children ages 6 to 15 (about $8 and $4,
respectively); however, the garden offers a family rate for a flat FJ$45
(about $21). If it's worthy the entrance fee or not, you decide, cause every traveller is different. I'm a more wild person, I would go to the remote islands and live with locals for a month ahah, but I understand if you like to admire the beauty with comfort. It's all about to know if you want to see flowers in the garden or in the wild!!
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Happy journeys in Fiji!
