Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Internet access
Rohit's, 2nd floor Kamil Building on Narara Parade just off Elizabeth Square
(Mon-Sat 8am-6pm; F$1 per hr), is the cheapest in town. Click Internet opposite the market
on Naviti St is the largest, with 20 terminals (Mon-Sat 8am-6pm, Sun 9am-5pm; F$2 per
hr).
Library
Western Regional Library, Tavewa Ave off Elizabeth Square (Mon-Fri 10am-5pm;
666 0091).
Medical care
Lautoka Hospital off Thompson Crescent ( 666 0399) caters for emergencies.
Alternatively, several general practitioners are based at the Bayly Clinic, 4 Nede St (Mon-Fri
8am-1pm & 2-4.30pm, Sat 8am-1pm for private doctor or dentist; 666 4598).
Pharmacy
Hyper Pharmacy, 101 Vitogo Parade (Mon-Sat 8am-8pm, Sun 9am-2pm &
6-8pm; 665 1940).
Police
At Drasa Ave opposite Yawini St ( 666 0222). There's also a police post in the city
centre on Tui St beside Shirley Park.
Post office
Elizabeth Square (Mon-Fri 8am-4pm, Sat 8am-noon).
Sports
Northern Club, 11 Tavewa Ave ( 666 0184). Social club with swimming pool (F$3),
tennis (F$1.50/30min) and squash (F$1/30min).
Telephone
At the post office on Elizabeth Square.
Koroyanitu National Heritage Park
Around 10km southeast of Lautoka,
Koroyanitu National Heritage Park
has the most ac-
cessible walking trails of Fiji's two National Heritage Parks. The park was created in 1992
to preserve the area's natural forests and endemic birdlife from clearing for pine forest and
encroaching grasslands.
At the
Abaca visitor centre
you can pick up pamphlets and local information, and you'll
find two
walking tracks
from here. The most challenging is the Batilamu Track, which
snakes uphill through forest for two hours until it reaches the summit of the 1163m
Mount
Batilamu
. The mountain forms the belly of the
Sleeping Giant
, and from the summit you can
see all the way back to Lautoka and across to the Yasawa Islands. Alternatively, an easy two-
hour loop trail follows a grassy ridge to
Savuione Falls
, which tumbles 80m in two tiers to a
deep swimming pool. From the falls, the trail descends into thick dakua forest back to Vereni
Falls close to Abaca village.
If you're interested in exploring the park further, guides from Abaca can accompany you on
an
overnight trail
deep into the forest. This involves a tough five-hour walk to the remote
village of Navilawa.
