Fiji is a country of three hundred and thirty-three islands in the South Pacific, most of them uninhabited, arranged across an area of ocean larger than Western Europe in water so warm and so clear that the snorkelling from the shore at the mid-range resorts of the Mamanuca Islands is better than the guided dive…
Dietrich Mateschitz bought Laucala Island in 2003 with the specific intention of building the finest private island resort in the South Pacific — the same single-minded intention that produced the Red Bull empire, the Formula One racing team, and the Hangar-7 museum in Salzburg. The twenty-five villas on the twenty-five-square-kilometre volcanic island in Fiji’s northern…
The flight to Fiji is long enough to feel like a commitment — a declaration that you have decided, consciously and at some personal inconvenience, to go to one of the most remote inhabited places on the planet. What greets you at the other end of that commitment is, for a significant proportion of travellers,…