Nadi

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Nadi town Man. If you like action, hustling and bustling, jam-packed streets, hot, hot climate and heaps of people, then Nadi is the place for you.

Nadi (pronounced Nandi) is on the western side of the main island of Viti Levu with a population of around 43,000 at the last census in 2007. Fiji doesn’t have too many of these so we’ll be guessing numbers from now on for a while.

Nadi is multiracial with a capital “M”. A mixture of Fijians and Indo-Fijians with an added zest of life imbued by the thousands of tourists who land in Nadi as the setting-off point for their unforgettable Fiji experience.

Set in the middle of the cane field belt, which together with tourism is the basic source of sustenance for the locals, Nadi is constantly on the go and never seems to sleep.

The Main Street in Nadi is the commercial centre of the town and is brimming with shops of various persuasions all hell-bent on enticing you inside to buy something. The competition is fierce hence the prevalence of street touts offering you all sorts of ‘stuff’ at cut rate bargain prices. These efforts go hand-in-hand with loudspeakers at shop entrances belting out the latest Hindi or Fijian music. All in all it tends to be a cacophony of sound, sight and colour.

But like we said – that’s Nadi