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.

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.

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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