About
Why are you really going to Fiji?
Ice-cold beer, air-conditioned sleep, sun-loungers,
plasma screens, florescent cocktails. You can find
all these things in Fiji, but not on Vorovoro.
Yaqona, meke, sevusevu, ecotricity, sulu jaba,
talanoa, farm-acy, fruitopia, tanoa park, four
peaks, & the hammock society. You can find all
these on Vorovoro and more. This is your new home.
Come and play your part in a remarkable story.
Tribewanted was founded in 2006 as a unique island
community tourism project. Living alongside the
local fishermen and women on Vorovoro, our crosscultural
community have built a simple, sustainable
village from scratch. Up to 30 tribe members of
all ages stay on Vorovoro for a minimum of a week,
taking part in village life which can include on
a typical day: foraging the islands gardens for
fruits and vegetables, husking coconuts, spearfishing,
cultural language and dance classes,
sports, construction and art projects, or teaching
in a local school.
Vorovoro
Vorovoro is a spectacular eruption of land 13km
north of Labasa, Vanua Levu.
200 acres of cliff-topped jungle and palm-fringed
paradise surges out of the crystal blue South
Pacific ocean.
A few minutes boat-ride north of its calm shores
lies the third largest reef in the world – Cakau
Levu. Banana, paupau, coconut, orange and lime
fruits hang from trees whilst some of the finest
tasting fish you are likely to encounter is caught
regularly just off the beach.
PEOPLE
Tui Mali (pronounced ‘Twee Marlee’) is Chief of the
Mali yavusa (tribe) who live in the fishing villages
on the neighbouring island. He visits Vorovoro weekly
to meet new tribe members. His extended family are
the people you will be living with on Vorovoro.
You
WORK
Plant, forage and tend the island
gardens, feed the pigs and chickens,
collect firewood and help the local
ladies in the kitchen, get a sweat
on with the Fiji boys with village
construction and maintenance projects.
Learn how to present ‘sevusevu’ to
the chief, and then do it, perfect
your meke (traditional dancing), weave
mats, learn Fijian songs and take
language lessons.
REST
Swing with the Hammock Society and
read from the tribe’s library, shower
in the waterfall or bath in the
sea, watch spectacular sunsets from
the rock or around the beach-side
campfires, eat fresh fish, vegetables
and fruit. Drink kava and sing with
team Fiji under the stars.
PLAY
Snorkel & spearfish on the world’s
third largest barrier reef, teach
and play sports weekly in the local
primary school, take on the 4-peaks
challenge, swim the island, compete in
the coconut Olympics, paint signs and
craft coconut jewellery, play footy
in Tanoa Park and volleyball on the
beach. |
