Savusavu's First Ever Craft Fair:
The DOC Market

Organised by the Savusavu Art Society
& Hosted by the Decked Out Cafe

When: This Thursday, 2nd July, 2009
Where: Decked Out Cafe
Time: 10.00am onwards

On sale: items hand made & home made by the people of Savusavu - jams, chutneys, mats, jewellery, pot plants, sulus, etc.

This fair will be conducted on the 1st Thursday of every month.

All funds raised from stall fees will go towards the Savusavu Art Society's Art Education Programme. Any donations in kind or cash will be greatly appreciated by the Society. Much thanks go towards Jackie Powell & family for their kind donation of books to sell.

Click here for the latest updates and Newsletter from J. Hunter Pearls.

CLICK HERE for the latest 2009 schedule for Cruise Ship visits to Savusavu.

Welcome to Yoga in Paradise!
A blissful yoga journey in Fiji’s Hidden Paradise. Daku Resort is offering teachers from a range of yoga practices for a series of courses. Each one is a practicing yoga teacher with an established following, and offers a slightly different approach to this ancient discipline of body and mind. For more information, please visit their website.

The Savusavu Airport is now re-opened and in operation! After nearly 5 months of work on the airport, Airports Fiji Ltd. has re-opened our airport for traffic. The new upgrades help ensure a more streamlined and safer environment for everyone flying into our “Hidden Paradise”. The official ceremony was held on Saturday 13 December 2008 and was attended by the Attorney General, airport officials, airline representatives, local resort operators and residents of Savusavu. Refreshments were provided by the resorts and community of Savusavu. With the airport now open the trip over the mountains from Labasa is no longer required. Now is a great time to plan your visit to Savusavu!

Savusavu's own unique Pearl Farm, J. Hunter Pearls Fiji holds second auction in Japan.
This past May, J. Hunter Pearls Fiji successfully hosted their second annual Fiji Pearls auction in Yokohama, Japan, with over 90% of their lots sold, attesting to the strong demand for J. Hunter’s untraditionally colored Fiji Pearls. Demand was brisk: over 90% of lots were sold. As was last year, the highlight of the auction was the pearls themselves. Lot number one, a 18.9mm round, saw
aggressive bidding. J. Hunter introduced his new gem, Fiji baroques, to an enthusiastic audience. These pearls, keshi in appearance but huge and untraditional in color, were highly sought after and appreciated. Truly unique this year were natural earthy tones. These were very popular, not one being left. As before, a small group of buyers from different market locations around the world was invited to attend. To read a very interesting article from The International Pearling Journal Click here.

New 2009 holiday study courses from Daku Resort in Savusavu, Fiji
Daku Resort in Fiji has developed a range of yoga, bird watching, writing, painting and other courses wrapped up in a holiday. It's the only resort in Fiji offering this unique mixture of an organized study course with the delights of a South Pacific holiday.

We look forward to spending a week with you, a week of discovery. Invest in yourself—a week to retreat, renew, reinvigorate and restore. Click here for the complete 2009 schedule.

For Information on any of these coures please contact Daku Resort.

The Savusavu Rotarians are delighted that Jeff’s work has been recognized: it was a HUGE effort and made a real difference in the lives of local Fijian people. The project tackled the threatened closure of three schools in outlying areas due to sickness from unsafe drinking water. It involved identifying and installing piping and tanks to insure clean running water. The farthest school was over 2 hours away on terrible potholed dirt roads; the longest pipeline was over 2 km long. It was, of course, a team effort and Jeff feels that it really goes to the entire team, and particularly to Suzie Ilina & Peter Ilin, as they worked tirelessly to get those projects done in very adverse conditions. 

Jeff was presented with the award on July 24th, when the new District Governor, Jack Davies, from Auckland, NZ, visited Savusavu. The award is given to only one person in each District –  Savusavu is in District 9920 which is a huge area spread across seven countries: Fiji, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands and French Polynesia and a part of Auckland. With 48 clubs and over 1,800 members you can see it’s a significant achievement.
  
Jeff tells the story of when last year's District Governor was visiting Savusavu Rotary Club and wanted to see the projects we were working on.  It had been an especially wet month and was a very dreary, rainy day as they slogged along muddy roads. Even Jeff was concerned his 4WD truck might not get through; they forded swollen streams and had to jump out at one point and hack away at a tree that had fallen in the road.  Of course, there are no chainsaws in the bush so the locals used their sharp machetes to chop up the trunk and get through.  The DG exclaimed that he had never seen anything like it and was so impressed with the hardship that the people live with on a daily basis here and the effort that Jeff, Suzie & Peter were undertaking to see to it that there was clean drinking water for the children in the schools.

The Savusavu Rotary Club is proud to have been part of this effort.

The Rotary Club of Savusavu meets every Tuesday at 5:30 pm on the deck of the Hot Springs Hotel. There are twelve active members. Visitors welcome! Call 885-3189 or E-mail for more information. Through generous funding and matching grants from various overseas Rotary clubs, our club has been active in placing donated books & computers in rural schools, building a library in a rural school, providing new library book shelves & reading tables with benches to rural schools, building new toilet blocks in schools, building a house for a crippled man and his young family, bringing in 280 new all terrain wheelchairs to handicapped people in out lying villages, repairing old water lines and bringing in new water systems to provide clean water to schools that were threatened with closure due to lack of clean, safe drinking water. Our current project, funded thru the European Union, is providing training in Hospitality/Tourism, Floriculture/Arts & Crafts and Construction for disadvantaged young adults in the Savusavu area.

Coming to Savusavu? Be sure to stop by Budget Car Rental office across from the Post Office on Main Street and check out the new Tourist Info Spot. What is the Spot? It's a great place to find out all about what you can do in Savusavu! Diving, Fishing, Tours, Rentals, etc. or just about anything that Savusavu has to offer.