Detour inland from the Queen's Highway just past the Sigatoka Bridge |
Naroro village, Viti Levu-Fiji |
Lush green interior of Viti Levu |
Tavuni Hill Fort National Archaeological Site, Fiji |
Visitor's Centre - Tavuni Hill Fort |
Details about Tavuni Hill Fort |
Tavuni was settled by an exiled Tongan chief, Maile Latamai |
Old engraving of a warrior - Tavuni |
Old engraving of a warrior - Tavuni |
Traditional warrior hairstyles in the 19th Century |
Map of the Tavuni Hill Fort, Fiji |
View from the Tavuni Fort visitor's centre with the Sigatoka River |
The small village of Naroro at the base of Tavuni Hill Fort |
Tavuni Hill Fort - a Tongan Fortification Hillfort - 'Kolo' |
The Tavuni Hill Fort was established in the early 1800's by Tongan exiles |
I had the fort and the informative guide to myself |
56 house mounds have been discovered at Tavuni Hill Fort |
Remains of a cooking over |
The British destroyed the Tavuni Hill Fort using native troops in 1876 |
View of the Sigatoka River from Tavuni Hill Fort |
Tavuni Hill Fort was excavated and opened as an archaeological park in 1994 |
Tavuni Hill Fort commands the heights over a bend in the Sigatoka River 8 km from the sea |
Sigatoka River from Tavuni Hill Fort |
Bend in the Sigatoka River looking north from Tavuni Hill Fort |
Cannibal Altar - Tavuni Hill Fort |
Vatu Ni Bokola - Killing Stone, Tavuni Hill Fort |
The victims head rested on the top stone with the neck over the slit for decapitation |
Ritual area of Tavuni Hill Fort |
Phallic Rock, Tavuni Hill Fort |
Tavuni Hill Fort was defended by a series of ditches and thorny bushes |
Sigatoka River from Tavuni Hill Fort |
Changing demographics - house with a small Hindu temple just north of the Tavuni Hill Fort |
Remains of the defensive works destroyed under British command in 1876 |
A house adjacent to the Tavuni Hill Fort |
Panoramic view of the bend in the Sigatoka River at Tavuni Hill Fort |
Sigtatoka River from Tavuni Hill Fort |
Large banyan tree within the Tavuni Hill Fort |
Large banyan tree within the Tavuni Hill Fort |
Large banyan tree within the Tavuni Hill Fort |
Hills and flowers, Tavuni Hill Fort |
Henibua Circle - the descendants of the original Tongan settlers eventually adopted Christianity |
Chief's burial place at Henibua Circle |
Green hills around the fort at Tavuni |
Naroro Village, Fiji |
Naroro Village, Fiji |
Sigatoka River, Fiji |
Farmland near the Tavuni Hill Fort |
Indian brown mongoose (Herpestes fuscus) introduced to control rats in the sugarcane fields |