Niue
Niue, an island unique for its hospitality as well as for its status as the world's largest uplifted coral atoll,now has a website and two flights a week up from one. You may wish to question what is so great about being an uplifted coral atoll instead of a plain ordinary a mite above sea level sort of atoll. It's really quite simple. In this era of global warming, where there has been of late a discernible rise in sea level, Niue is quite safe. Mean sea level would have to rise well over one hundred feet before the inhabitants of the island would begin to feel the slightest bit of apprehension. The same cannot be said of the true atolls in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
There is another reason to value uplifted coral atolls. The uplifted coral acts as a gigantic filter. It takes an age for rainwater to trickle down through the coral. When it does reach the sea, it is crystalline pure giving rise to some of the most brilliant underwater colours you've ever enjoyed.
Flights to Niue originate in Apia, Samoa and Auckland, New Zealand. Flight departure times are not that convenient but that's the way the game is played in the South Pacific. Even Nadi International Airport, gateway to Fiji, the largest tourism player in the South Pacific, bustles at three in the morning. It's all to do with geography. The airlines bust their buttons to ensure convenient arrival and departure times at high traffic generator locales such as New York, London,Tokyo or Honolulu. It has to do with connecting flights. Enjoying the privilege of visiting Nuie,is worth having to put up with a little inconvenience. So what if you arrive at three in the morning! Check out Niue's first website and you will see what you've been missing.
Niue
Niue and Nonu
(SPTO from Niue Tourism press release April 7, 2005).
Rosie Holidays
A state-of-the-art coach is the latest addition to the fleet of one of Fiji's leading tourism operators. Rosie Holidays new 53-seater Scania coach worth $300,000 USD was recently delivered to the Nadi based company. What makes the coach unique is its electronically controlled engine that meets strict environmental emission levels.
"It is the first coach of its kind in the country," Company managing director Tony Whitton said. "It's the first vehicle in the country with a Euro 3 engine, which has onboard computers to cleverly detect engine load. The proper mixing of fuel and oxygen is environmentally friendly as it does not emit carbon monoxide or nitrous oxide," he said. "It is becoming an international standard engine for all vehicles now. "The Australian parliament recently passed a bill mandating Euro 3 engines."
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