Guided Walking Tours, Suva

24/12/2024

Christmas Eve morning tours with Jim🙌🏽❤️

21/12/2024

It is such a joy working with you Koto, I look forward to 2024 so we can work exclusively together for all our cultural work and workshops we have lined up.

Vinaka

21/12/2024

Saturday off-season tours with Jim in the city!! Geoff and his family are staying at the Holiday Inn Suva and I got a call from Sai, who works at the Fiji Museum he told her he was keen to learn about Suva and called me directly and sorted out the booking.

Our low season begins in Oct and finishes up in February we been getting a few bookings a week and Jim and I are both glad about it 😀😀

20/12/2024

Our last Art, Sip & Savor’ of the year, fantastic to be working with Matemosi Masi Artisans with the sisters Koto & Lisa & big vinaka to the Grand Pacific Hotel Suva for having us Guided Walking Tours, Suva as the host for these events, we are excited about 2025🙌🏽❤️

16/12/2024

The past two years of being in business has been a big learning curb. I am a poet and what I needed was a side hustle that provided income for my creative and rather poor life. The tours have shifted into the main focus and the creative life has taken a back seat, doing business wasn’t only only a great learning curb for me but it was so gratifying so many ppl are happy to see someone taking this history initiative and present our urban history as a tour experience.

I just bought canva pro and have just designed this myself, this year we are changing our prices and we are presenting the 5 new products that we have been testing out over the two years and entering 2025 with great enthusiasm and pride.

To all the cool cats that have supported me on this journey, Talanoa Treks and Intrepid Travel, Doreen, Kris and Vanessa and the larger team at Grand Pacific Hotel Suva and InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa Chris and his team at Royal Davui Island Resort ~ Fiji and Finding Islands Tours. Charlotte and her whole team of the New Zealand High Commission, Suva, Fiji I have done so many tours for all the staff visiting families, Australian Volunteers Program big loloma to Kara and her admin team and to Volunteers Abroad.

Misha, Luke, Sachiko, Maria and fam our new family-besties these behind-the-scenes people always present and supporting, I love you guys.

Heres to kicking 2025 in the teeth and having a great year ahead.

Picture credit in our ad goes to Robin from Fiji Pocket Guide

16/12/2024

Get your tickets this Friday to our last one of the year, last month was a brilliant turn out and I look forward to this Friday!

10/12/2024

Here are some great pictures from the Vanua Immersion Dinner at the InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa we attended last month with Matemosi Masi Artisans. We had the opportunity to share our work on how we create our cultural immersion experiences here in Suva.

10/12/2024

This year, I’ve had the privilege of exploring cultural and art immersion experiences, and one of the highlights has been creating a handmade Christmas tree for Holiday Inn Suva.

This project allowed me to work closely with Matamosi Artisans, a group of young and emerging cultural innovators who specialise in masi-making as well as weaving and other heritage arts. Over the past five days, we’ve worked tirelessly to collect, prepare, and handcraft all the Christmas ornaments, incorporating dried rhapis leaves and other natural materials.

Our focus has been on showcasing handmade and natural elements, presenting Christmas in a uniquely creative Fijian way. We’re grateful to the team at Holiday Inn Suva for giving us this opportunity and paving the way for sustainable practices in celebrating the festive season.

I invite everyone to stop by Holiday Inn Suva to see the tree, take photos, and experience this special display for yourselves. It’s a wonderful way to celebrate the season and connect with Fijian culture.

08/12/2024

Jose Lagarra is from Spain and has lived in Fiji for a couple of years. I shared some of his drawings of the city before, and I don't take tours of this building or this part of the city. It's off the main streets, and if we did take this route, it would add another two hours to the tour.

I do, however, love this old building. This building is at the corner of Marks Street and Renwick Road, it has been red for the past 10 years, and on the second floor since the 70s when I think it opened. Throughout the 80s when I was a boy, I used to get my hair cut there. It did then and still now has large A2 framed posters of Sakarai Ve, a boxing champion from the 80s, Amitabh Bachchan, the lead from the band Kiss, and when my dad would bring me to get my hair cut we would always stop at Joe Wong for a milkshake on the way back home cause I would cry each time I would get my hair cut. Joe Wong is still an institution I frequent, though I changed barbers and no longer go there, it is still a place that has become important to me, this is one of the places where I carry the memory of my father in the city.

I don't know much about this building, and it's not written about, so it might have been built after the 1960s.

Guided City Tours, navigating the city through memories and stories.

07/12/2024

Matemosi Masi Artisans designed a tree for Holiday Inn Suva🙌🏽 we installed yesterday! Using natural leaves, fibers & dried leaves to create the tree & presents!

07/12/2024

Our Saturday group tour vinaka Sevuloni🙌🏽

30/11/2024

On a tour yesterday with two German based artists Climate Artists Action Residency program that’s doing research in Fiji & in Samoa we came across this shoe repair guy mending a busted diving flipper, bloody brilliant🙌🏽

29/11/2024

Art, Sip & Savor at the Grand Pacific Hotel Suva with Matemosi Masi Artisans!!

28/11/2024

Tours today, Jim is out sick and so I had to do tours with a small group today, a new Kiwi volunteer who works with Volunteers Abroad and a traveler Andrea whose partner is at a conference at USP did the tour this morning, Andrea is a stunning human who lent me her powerbank so my uncharged and dead fone could get some juice so I can do more poetry hustling after the tour.

27/11/2024

Pictures from Adventure Travel Trade Association group that was here for AdventureNext conference I did two weeks ago! Vinaka Silina Bale & Finding Islands Tours🙌🏽❤️

25/11/2024