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Welcome to Seventh Heaven, one of many latest escapes in Fiji. And spoiler alert: it is significantly good.
Let’s take you to the Mamanucas; a golden assortment of islands off the coast of Nadi house to luxurious retreats and distinctive day journeys.
It is right here you may discover a floating platform of bliss. Seventh Heaven is successfully the world’s most lovely bar. It is two-storey, with a restaurant, pizza oven and solar loungers on the decrease flooring. Upstairs are extra loungers and a “leap of religion” into the water. It is also the place you may discover one of the crucial lovely therapeutic massage huts on the earth.
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Annually, tens of hundreds of Kiwis determine to base themselves at Denarau for his or her Fiji vacation. It is a hub of huge resorts, only a quick distance from the airport.
The one draw back to staying there’s that you do not get to expertise the actual Fiji – these magical turquoise waters that may have you ever returning 12 months after 12 months.
Nonetheless, there’s a simple treatment. A group of day journeys go away Port Denarau every day, taking you straight out to paradise, and Seventh Heaven is the most recent choice.
The journey begins with a 45-minute journey out the platform. Because the boat nears, you discover an idyllic little buoyant bar come into sight.
When you attain Seventh Heaven, it’s going to take your eyes a couple of minutes to regulate to the depth of the colors – the water can greatest be described as “Photoshop blue”.
You then seize a drink, safe your lounger for the day and unwind. My thought of bliss was grabbing a e-book and doing exactly nothing. Nonetheless, many others jumped into the water to snorkel.
By lunchtime, the centre of gravity turns into the wood-fired pizza oven. There’s additionally a menu of favourites like fish and chips, arancini and dumplings. It feels bizarre feasting in the midst of nowhere – however that is how Seventh Heaven works.
Within the afternoon, some folks headed upstairs to the therapeutic massage bure whereas others jumped off the second-storey platform.
The idea is just like the favored Cloud 9 bar – however I discovered Seventh Heaven much less targeted on partying and somewhat extra refined, which might make it my choose.
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One in every of our fellow visitors jumped on a young boat, and to our shock, headed again to his big superyacht parked close by, value tens of tens of millions – if no more. Earlier than he departed, he advised the workers simply how a lot he beloved the place.
It seems that this can be a playground of millionaires. However the perfect half about Seventh Heaven is that you do not have to be one to take pleasure in it.
The author travelled as a visitor of Tourism Fiji.
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