Nacula Village

Blue Lagoon Beach Resort is fortunate enough to have a co-dependency with Nacula Village, the village has over 300 people who live there and relationships with the Elders, the community and also the children are a part of our daily lives on the resort. Aside from the managers, the executive chef and a few tradesmen from the mainland, all staff come from Nacula village and for some, are experiencing their very first position within a resort environment. You have the opportunity to visit the village when we take the guided tour each week. The below is just a snippet to get you well and truly curious! You will be taken over by boat and led through the village by one of our local guides. You will be shown things like the very first attempts at building a church by the Catholic missionaries in the early 1900s. The church was constructed from crushed, washed up coral and rocks and packed down to form walls, etc. From here you make your way through the village and visit the current 3 churches, you then visit the chief’s hut. This is by far the biggest and most elaborate hut of all and can only be used when the chief is in attendance in the village. From here we take you through to the community hall where you will get to experience a traditional meke performed by the older members of the community. This is the Fijian way of welcoming you into their village. You then have a tour through the craft market where the ladies sell their hand-made arts and crafts. We finish the tour with a 5-minute walk to the primary school where you get to meet the children in person. They do not get the opportunity to see many visitors or even visit the mainland themselves, so they genuinely love and welcome any guests who pop in to say ‘Bula’.

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