Fiji Dive Service

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Fiji Dive Service

Flights and Packing
Destination

Fiji

Current Grades

9th-11th

length

16 Days

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Airports

Arrive: Taveuni, Fiji (TVU)
Depart: Taveuni, Fiji (TVU)

The tropical underwater paradise of Fiji awaits your exploration! By the end of your Fiji adventure, you’ll be the proud owner of a PADI open water diver certification. Our home base will be Dolphin Bay Divers Retreat, home to the famous Rainbow Reef, White Wall, and more than 20 other world-class dive and snorkel sites. We’ll spend several days on Taveuni Island, otherwise known as the “Garden Island of Fiji,” participating in cultural immersion among villagers and meaningful community service. Rounding out our adventure includes activities like hikes to waterfalls, beach volleyball, and enjoying traditional cuisine!

 

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Itinerary

Day 1-6: Homestay and community service on Taveuni

We’ll start our adventure in Lavena Village on Taveuni, a village situated at the foot of Lavena Coastal Walk and Waterfall. We’ll be welcomed with a special ceremony (also known as “sevusevu”) by the village chief before meeting with our host families for the next several nights (two to three students stay with each family). Villagers will teach us traditional dances, fishing practices, and mat-weaving, and we’ll even get to eat that day’s fresh catch for dinner.

Accommodation: Homestay

Day 7-10: Gain PADI dive certifications

After our cultural immersion with warm, caring locals, we’ll head back to Dolphin Bay for this region’s most famous pastime. The first three days will be spent learning the basics of open water diving. For those with previous diving experience, dive masters will be eager to help you gain advanced certifications. Beginners will visit the Cabbage Patch off Kadavu Island, where its namesake soft coral lives among a variety of exotic sea life, including sea cucumbers, ghost pipefish, manta rays, unicorn fish, arc-eye hawkfish, and even white-tipped reef sharks (don’t worry, they won’t hurt us!). More advanced divers can visit the Great White Wall, where you’ll be greeted by both hard and soft coral, morays, colorful sponges, and more. After we earn our PADI open water diver cert, we’ll spend the next several days exploring more areas around the Rainbow Reef. We’ll even get to do a nighttime dive!

Accommodation: Eco-lodge

Day 11-16: Volunteer at a local school and explore the islands

When it’s time to dry out from diving, we’ll spend time with the students of the Viani Bay School. We’ll participate in school grounds beautification, farming, painting, and reading to and playing games with children. We will plant Taro trees at a farm on Taveuni, which was devastated by Cyclone Winston in 2016. Another afternoon, we’ll head to the extremely lush Bouma National Heritage Park, known the world over for its Tavoro Waterfalls, a spectacular showing of three cascades up to 80 feet tall. While we’re on Taveuni, we’d be remiss not to visit the Waitavala Water Slide, a naturally occurring chute comprised of 150 feet of gently-sloped waterfalls.

Accommodation: Eco-lodge

 

*Listed above is Bold Earth’s intended itinerary for this trip. All itineraries are subject to change in order to provide the best possible program quality.

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Dates and Prices

Departure 1
  • Departure Day
    07/01/24
  • Return Day
    07/16/24
  • Grade
    9–11
  • Price
    $5,888
  • Availability
    Full
Departure 1
  • Departure Day
    07/19/24
  • Return Day
    08/03/24
  • Grade
    9–11
  • Price
    $5,888
  • Availability
    Full
Departure Day Return Day Grade Price Availability
07/01/24
07/16/24
9–11
$5,888
full
07/19/24
08/03/24
9–11
$5,888
full

Accommodations & Service

Community Service: Approximately 20 Hours
  • Village: Students will participate in beach clean-ups and school visits.
  • Wilson’s Farm: Post-cyclone farming relief.
Accommodations:
  • 10 nights of beach camping at a diving resort. Students will stay in safari-style standing room tents.
  • 5 nights of village homestays. There are 2-3 students per family, students only share a room with other students. Homestay families have been vetted and every home has clean water and bathroom facilities.

Activities

Community service: 20 hours

Cultural immersion

Diving

Hiking

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Reviews

Maeve, student from Rockville, MD

My favorite part about the trip was scuba diving because you get to see so many beautiful things underwater, including some fish that you can only see in Fiji. It is such a wonderful experience to participate in! You get to partake in opportunities that you couldn’t
have if you went on your own, like the homestay. And you make  bonds with people that will last a lifetime.

Edward G, parent from Morgan Hill, CA

This was absolutely wonderful in every way. I would send my child again, and I will highly recommend Bold Earth to everyone. Zero negatives. This is one of the best things we have ever done for Gabe. This was a wonderful experience for Gabe and wonderful for us as parents to see Gabe so joyful in this
experience.

Julia, student from Jacksonville, FL

I loved the scuba diving! It was something I’d never thought about doing, but now I love it. I would recommend Bold Earth to others
because I think it offers a very
unique experience, and I think it’s something everyone should experience if they can.

Jenifer S, parent from Jacksonville, FL

My daughter loves these trips, and I’m so glad they’ve brought out the adventurer in her. She thinks the world of her trip leaders, and I can tell they are very responsible and fun.

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