Fiji Islands Handbook [antikvár]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSSpecial thanks to the Fiji Visitors Bureau for help in updating resort and recreational information, to Eileen Chambers for valuable help and advice, to Andrew Hempstead and Nadi-na Purdon for 22 pages of notes on the second edition (!), to Dianne Bain for information on yacht charters around Fiji, to Peter McQuarrie for checking facilities around Suva, to Debra Minto and Eric Harper for a complete report on Kan-davu, to Trudi Unger for collecting all the latest brochures, to Hans J. Camerer for returning his handbook full of useful notes, to Jim Matheson for the map of Savusavu, to Tjalling Terpstra of Amber Travel Agency, Amsterdam, for help in updating Pacific air routes, to Margaret Argue of the South Pacific Peoples Foundation of Canada for a big box of resources, to Bill Weir for getting my computer operational, and to Ria de Vos for providing the support I needed to continue updating this book.Thanks, too, to the following readers who took the trouble to write us letters about their trips: Lisa Arman, Andrea and Thomas Bach-mann, Katrin and Carsten Bartels, Robert Bisor-di, Peter Bossew, Albert Büchi, Robert Buckley, Louisa Bungey, Rick Carson, Ronald L. Challis, Pundy Christopher, t\/liguel DaSilva, Alexandra Ganter, Thorn Garfat, Siegfried Gebel, Thomas Gerber, Brian Grant, Neil and Nora Hägen, Emil Kappus, Kurtand Trudi Keller, Sanford Kent, Marko Knepper, Eric Kobbe, Christoph Kokolt, Real Leboeuf, Hans-Peter Liecht, John Maident, Petra Maierhofer, Bernd Marks, Nick Miller, Jonathan Mitchell, Dr. Wolfram Müller, David Nash, Margit Oppitz, Ingrid Pickel, William de Prado, Hanne Rasmussen, Marian Riach, Isei Rokonaceva, Gerald Ryder, Horst A. Sach, Mark John Schlagböhmer, Peter Schüfer, Manfred Seitz, S. Wanda SippI, Peter Sprenger, Hans-Jörg Stahmeier, Gerhard Stief, Robert Leger Teitelbaum, Helgor Trachet-Van-devoorde, Gemot Vogels, Jochen Wadsack, Gisela Walther, Mag. Martin Zausner, Dr. Waltraud Zausner, and Johanna Ziegler. You can have your name included here next edition for the price of a postage stamp.Attention Hotel Keepers, Tour Operators, Divemasters: The best way to keep your listing in Fiji Islands Handbook up to date is to send us current information about your business. If you don't agree with what we've written, tell us whythere's never any charge or obligation for a listing. Thanks to the following island tourism workers and government officials who did write in: Ofa and Haroon All, Elain Barrett-Power, Denis Beckmann, Agnes Bibi, Nolyn Blanchette, Wendy Brooks, Luisa Bulavakarua, John Bullock, Do Cammick, Colleen E. Condon, Henry Crawford, Linda 8. Crowl, Mary Crowley, Michael Dennis, Gordon Edris, Richard V. Elms, Lorraine Evans, Sicely Eyre, Anne Fair-lie, Capt. Fritz Falkner, John D. Flatt, Bob Forster, Valerie Gadway, Val Gavriloff, Burnie Grayson, Betty and Brian Greenwood, Eric Harper, Mark Hinton, Brad Hoopes, Roger Hoskins, Gabrieile Hunt, Rozita Ibrahim, Thomas W. Jacobus, Walter Kamm, Helene Kelly, Foike von Knobloch, H.D. Kruse, Champak Lai, Leslie G. Lewis, Peter D. Marks, Brenda L. McCroskey, Mrs. B.F. McEI-rath, Roger Miles, Debra Minto, Andrew W. Mitchell, Douglas Mitchell, Joan B. Moody, Mrs. Edward A. Morris, Kathryn Lyman Nickel, Nicholas Panza, Graham Pettitt, C. Gregory Posey, Keith Potter, Niranjan Prasad, Gianni Proios, Saimoni Ratu, A. Raywadee, Humphrey Reece, Theresa Rietberg, Taeko I. Ruggiero, Brian Rutherford, Lauraine Sharan, Mrs. Suruj Singh, Ved P. Singh, Joanne Slater, E. Sovea, Max Storck, Gillian Summers, Saras L. Swamy, Geoff Taylor, George Taylor, Mary Tuisago, Kim D. Waters, John Weir, Johno Wells, Brigid Whitton, Roy F. Whitton, and Marge D. Williams.While out researching my books I find it cheaper to pay my own way, and nothing in this book is designed to repay freebies from hotels, tour operators, or airlines. I prefer to arrive unexpected and uninvited and to experience things as they really are. On the road I seldom identify myself to anyone. The companies and organizations included in this book are there for information purposes only, and a mention in no way implies an endorsement.