Things to do in Vanua Levu
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KoroSun Dive
KoroSun Dive is on the jetty opposite Koro Sun Resort. Two-tank dives/PADI Open Water Course, including all gear, cost around F$210/around F$750; night dives are around F$130. There are special rates for multiday diving and it also offers day trips to the Somosomo Strait or the Namena Marine Park near Namenalala in the Lomaiviti Group.
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Sea View Café
Here you'll get cheap, cheerful travellers' food, served by the endlessly helpful Elenoa.
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Tui Tai Adventure Cruises
A voyage with Tui Tai Adventure Cruises is a fantastic way to see and do a lot in a short time. Sailing between Vanua Levu, Taveuni and the more remote islands of Kioa, Koro and the Ringgolds, you'll get to snorkel, kayak, bike, trek, swim, fish, dive or just lounge on deck to your heart's content.
Captivating dolphins and - if you're lucky - majestic whales swimming alongside the boat, star-lit dinners on deck, and welcoming villagers you meet on out-of-the-way islands all make it a great experience. The snorkelling and diving sites are some of the world's best, and the newly refitted sailboat itself is gorgeous. All accommodation is in cabins with private bathroom and a…
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Copra Shed Marina
Dating back to 1880 and originally one of Fiji's first copra mills, the Copra Shed Marina has been rebuilt into Savusavu's service hub for tourists and expats. In one visit you can book a flight or a boat, check your email, buy postcards, pick up your laundry, swig a beer and devour a pizza. Toilets and hot showers are available for yachties.
There is even a small historical display, and a couple of units for rent upstairs. Moorings in the pretty harbour between Savusavu and Nawi Islet cost around F$10/around F$220 for a day/month in high season, and F$7/F$150 for a day/month in low season.
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SeaHawk Yacht Charters
For those looking to charter their own boat, SeaHawk Yacht Charters rents out a beautiful 16m yacht with captain and a cook/crew for around F$250 to around F$420 per person per day depending on the season and level of service required. You can go practically anywhere in Fiji and the crew can help you arrange activities such as diving.
SeaHawk also offers cruises around Savusavu Bay, including full-day picnic cruises (around F$85), half-day sail and snorkel trips (F$55), sunset cruises (F$50) and overnight cruises (F$720 per couple).
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Trip n Tour
Trip n Tour offers a range of tours, including the Red Prawn Tour to Naweni village where locals call the unusual prawns, which are so red they look cooked, to the surface by chanting and slapping the water. There are also tours of the copra plantation of Nukutoso, Savusavu and surrounds, Waivunia village and Waisali Waterfall. Full-day Labasa tours cost around F$90. Diving, fishing and snorkelling trips can be arranged, as can overnight trips.
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Savusavu Yacht Club
It has a friendly pub feel about it, although it gets a bit rough around the edges on a Saturday night. With picnic tables by the waterside, the Yacht Club is a good place for a drink and to meet local expats. There's cold beer on tap and bar snacks (around F$6) and meals can be ordered from the next-door Captain's Café. Happy hour is 17:30 to 18:30. Tourists are considered temporary members.
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Planters' Club
This was traditionally a place for planters to come and drink when they brought in the copra, and some of their descendants can still be found clustered around the bar today. You can taste the history in the air as you taste the beer in your glass. Happy hour is 17:30 to 18:30. Once a month, the club holds a Sunday lunch lovo. The bar staff will sign in a tourist.
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Waitui Marina
There are classic South Pacific views from the balcony bar here: palm trees, yachts, an island beach and ethereal hot springs. The décor is suitably nautical, and merry yachties might find it hard to tell if they're at sea or on land. The club is friendly and comfortable, the bar is well stocked, and you are a temporary member if you are a foreigner on holiday.
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Surf And Turf
The signs on the window still proclaim Charan's Dinning Room (sic), but Surf And Turf is an altogether more upmarket affair. The manager's husband is a chef at the Cousteau resort, and he trained the chef here. He did a great job; this place is highly recommended. Surf and turf (lobster tail and fillet mignon) is around F$50 at dinner, by the way.
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Captain's Café
The food here is usually good - but forget about Sunday (when the chef takes the day off) - and the views of the harbour are fantastic. There are pizzas, fish and chips and sandwiches, and the daily specials are always worth trying. You can buy drinks - including cheap draught beer - from the Yacht Club next door.
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Decked Out Café
A fine place to watch the world go by on a sunny day, the Decked Out Café is a big, open deck on the main street, offering filling breakfasts and a limited menu of tasty and filling burgers and sandwiches. The daily specials are large and cheap. The fresh fruit smoothies (around F$3) are excellent.
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Eco Divers-Tours
Eco Divers-Tours advertises a variety of individually tailored village and hiking tours in the area. Eco Divers also organises guided kayaking tours around Savusavu Bay, ranging from three to 14 nights and staying in Fijian villages. Activities along the way include snorkelling, fishing and swimming.
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Hot Bread Kitchen
Savusavu has a few grocery stores including a well-stocked Morris Hedstrom Supermarket. The daily market has fruit and veggies as well as lots and lots of kava (yaqona) root, used to make the narcotic drink of the same name. The Hot Bread Kitchen has fresh loaves daily.
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J Hunter Pearls
With J Hunter Pearls you can snorkel among black pearls at 09:30 and 13:30 weekdays on this working farm's tours (around F$25). Staff members give talks on how pearls are made and afterwards you can head to the shop to buy pearls and shell jewellery. Bring your own (BYO) snorkel.
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Mo's Burgers
The fajitas here are made with baked rotis, and the quesadillas are made with fried rotis, but everything is tasty and fresh in this mutant Tex-Mex joint so very far from home. As well as burgers, Mo's offers pizza, fish and chips, and chicken and chips.
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Daily Planet
Surrounded by barbed wire fortifications, the Daily Planet looks as if it has been built to defend itself from attack, or to keep everyone inside. It's probably best not to stay until closing time, when fights occasionally roll down the main street.
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Country Kitchen
One step up from a hole in the wall, and popular with local Indians for its sweets, Country Kitchen also does Chinese standards and fresh, tasty, boneless (if you request them) curries in dilapidated surrounds. Worth a try.
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Chong Pong Restaurant
Serves your standard Chinese food such as chow mein, sweet-and-sour pork and noodle soup. Up a long flight of stairs, it's simple but has nice views across the main road to the market and sea beyond.
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Mahi Bar
Drink prices at the bar at the Hot Springs Hotel are a little steeper than in the clubs. Fijians seem to get around that by bringing their own kava. Still, the views are great.
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Savusavu Curry House
Unsurprisingly, Savusavu's only real Indian restaurant cooks pretty good curries - albeit in a gloomy backroom. Order one hour before for speciality dishes such as goat and duck.
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D Solanki
Head to this drapers for bargain-priced, beautifully made double-stitched lined saris tailor-made. It also sells traditional Fijian dress and Western clothes.
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L'Aventure Jean-Michel Cousteau
L'Aventure Jean-Michel Cousteau has excellent daily dives. Two-tank dives/PADI Open Water Course cost around F$250/around F$1000 (not including gear).
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Mini-Cinema
Upstairs next to Surf And Turf restaurant, the Mini-Cinema plays recent DVDs on a big screen; you can go in halfway through for around F$1.
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Savusavu Wines & Spirits
It's a popular, absurdly well-stocked bottle shop in the Copra Shed Marina. The place to come for imported wines and beers.
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