ONE can indulge his or herself over endless afternoons gazing at the yachts or cruise ships docked at sea, shopping for trinkets and souvenirs in the shops or simply peek at the natural beauty in Fiji.
So if you need help getting around, the locals at the Sugar City, Lautoka are sure to help in any way because website www.tropicalfiji.com reports Lautoka is a very clean city and environmental concern and has a wonderful botanical garden and children’s park.
“Here, one finds the industries, headquarters, the largest sugar mill, central sugar bulk, modern loading facilities and a large wharf,” reported the website.
“The main street of the city, Vitogo Pde, has been decorated with the planting of royal palm trees on one side and this is quite a unique feature.
“The city’s municipal market, which has a floor area of about 58,000m, is another attraction from both outside and inside.
“The tourist destinations are Abaca, island resorts, day cruises to island resort, handicraft markets, duty free shops and many more.
There is a wonderful marina at Vuda Point, Lautoka with surrounding hotels and motels.
For shopping, business and shopping hours, tropicalfiji.com reports Lautoka’s shopping centre is conveniently located in the central city area along Vitogo Pde, Naviti St and Yasawa St.”
Tropicalfiji.com adds the city has a very wide range of shops ranging from retail to wholesale.
“The retail outlets have basically all items such as food, clothing, duty free items, sporting equipment, medicines, tailoring, drapery, video rental, liquor outlets and many more.
There are all types of restaurants catering for a variety of dishes such as Chinese, Indian, Italian, Fijian, European, Korean, vegetarian, snack and many more.”
Lautoka is sited in the Western side of Viti Levu, the largest island in Fiji.
“It is only 25km away (towards the North) from Nadi International Airport. The city is surrounded with the blue Pacific Ocean on the Western side and green gold sugar cane together with pine trees on the other sides.” “There is no problem with the finance and foreign exchange as the city has five commercial banks and one exchange & finance company,” reported the website.
“The following sporting bodies and facilities are in the city, Golf (Lautoka Golf Club), soccer, rugby, cricket, hockey (facilities provided by Lautoka City Council at the Churchill Park (3 grounds), Nadovu Park (3 grounds) and many more grounds all-around the city), netball, volleyball, basketball and tennis (Lautoka City Council’s multipurpose courts).”
