Description:
Your Matangi Island dive package includes: Lodging in a private ocean-front bure with a magnificent view, right near the lagoon + 3 delicious sit-down meals each day + Fijian sales tax paid + unlimited free tank refills for shore diving in the lagoon + round-trip transfers from Taveuni docks by speedboat to Matangi Island (pronounced Ma-TAHNG-ee). This island used to be called Matagi for many years, until the phonetic equivalent changed recently for the convenience of dive tours. For those folks toting kids, baby-sitting is available at nominal fees from local village women who work with the resort. The native women of Matangi Island are very reliable & gentle with children -- the best nannies this side of the big blue Pacific.
So, how do our dive tours get you to Matangi Island, one of the most beautiful & exclusive resort getaways in the Fiji Islands? First, you fly from the West Coast to Nadi (pronounced "NAHN-dee") on Fijis main island, Viti Levu, which is about 3,174 air miles southwest of Honolulu. Then you grab a puddle-jumper flight from Nadi up to Taveuni Island, which sits about 90 miles northeast of Viti Levu, right on the Strait of Somosomo.
Then the resort sends a vessel to meet you at a North Taveuni dock, just a quick mini-van ride away from the Taveuni airport. You travel about 6 miles offshore, to the northeast; & 40 minutes later youre on Matagi. This is a lush & scenic half-moon-shaped atoll, perched stop an extinct volcanic crater, about 240 acres, with a dramatic 440-foot-high promontory in the middle. Matangi Island has been owned by the Douglas family for many years; & they run the island with keen attention to detail, & care for the environment. Dive trips are their life force & they are artists here.
© Copyright 1996 -- 2002 U.S. Dive Travel Network.
|
|
