Nausori
Nausori sits at the edge of the Rewa River delta, about nineteen kilometres from Suva, on the boundary where three provinces — Tailevu, Rewa, and Naitaisiri — meet without ceremony. It is the kind of town that does its own business: a market, a bus terminal, a bridge long enough that you notice it, and streets that move at a pace the capital never quite manages.
Most people pass through on the way somewhere else, and Nausori is fine with that. Its story is written in the riverbank and the old CSR quarters — a sugar town that lit itself by electricity before most of Fiji knew what that meant.
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People who come back tend to time it around the market in the morning, before the heat settles. The Rewa Bridge is worth walking rather than riding — the river looks different at that pace. Khan's mini market near the town centre is a reliable stop for cold drinks and a conversation if you're not in a hurry.
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On 17 July 1882, the Colonial Sugar Refining Company of Australia started operations at a mill on the left bank of the Rewa River — the first large-scale sugar mill in Fiji. The town that grew around it was shaped almost immediately by the arrival of Indian indentured labourers, the first major influx to Viti Levu, who came to work the Rewa Delta plantations from 1881. Two years after the mill opened, Nausori became the first place in Fiji to have electric light.
The sugar era ended in 1959 when the mill closed, but the town endured. Formally declared a municipality in 1931 under Ordinance No. 44 of 1928, Nausori has since grown steadily — from under six thousand residents in 1996 to nearly fifty-eight thousand by 2017 — becoming Fiji's fourth most populous municipality, sustained now by retail, services, and its role as a commuter corridor for Suva.
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When to go
The wet season runs November through April and can bring cyclones; the dry months of June through September are the most comfortable, with temperatures around 24–25°C and rainfall dropping to its lowest. Humidity sits near 79 percent year-round, so mornings are the easier time to be on foot.
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