Guided Walking Tours, Suva

02/06/2026

Alena Ditai is a cultural goods vendor at the Suva Market, she is. a weaver and she sells mats, voivoi, vau, and she sells masi and masi dyes in two colours, the black dye, that’s made from mangrove sap thats a liquid and dry clay in powder form.

Her stall # is 83-90, and she holds 8 spots that she pays a daily rate of $2.50 for each one. She took over her mum's stall in the late 90s. Her mother started as a vendor at the market in the mid 70s as a fruit and vegetable vendor, and changed to cultural goods in the mid 80s.

Alena is a second-generation vendor, like many people Iv met at the market. They’ve been here through coups, cyclones and COVID.

Whilst we talked this morning, Alena told me that cultural goods vendors at the market have a soli-club where they give varying amounts into a fund that she manages for the collective. Though members can withdraw small amounts during the course of the year, the soli is a Christmas fund. So vendors can have extra money for themselves and their families.

28/05/2026

The China Cultural Centre In Fiji hosts two galleries and has two exhibitions on at the moment its open Monday to Friday and located at House right next to Village 6 cinemas,suva,fiji

27/05/2026

This week's tours :)

24/05/2026

Rainy day tours with Jim with Tilda and Tiff, who are Australian researchers in Fiji for a few days before they go off to Labasa for work.

23/05/2026

We had such a stunning turnout today; we had 25 people in our floral design classes. Our focus today, and part of our 3-event program, was wreaths. We had two tables today that focused on a particular design. Joan Sipeli our floral expert, helped people make a funerary wreath with fresh flowers, whilst Koto Matemosi from Matemosi Masi Artisans helped our guests with a pandanus Christmas wreath.

We broke the group up into two groups, and after each group had completed their wreath, the groups swapped. We run the class in a conversational, easy-going way with tea, coffee and cakes, and the group is all booked in for the last of our floral design classes on the 6th June, where our guests will create be a large sculptural design.

Look out for our ads that will go up at the end of May 🙂 Or call me or message me on 789 2918 to secure a spot.

Vinaka to the Alliancefrancaise Suva for the stunning venue on Desvoux Rd thats easy to find and an easy stroll from the city.

21/05/2026

18/05/2026

We are back at the Alliancefrancaise Suva this week with our floral design workshops. Though we have 9 people booked, we still have spaces left.

Please call us on 789 2918 or send us a message on WhatsApp, Viber or through Messenger.

The workshops begin promptly at 10am, and we offer tea, coffee and biscuits! We accept payment upon registration on the day :)

18/05/2026

Fun tour this past Sunday with these three wonderful women, the two in the background are health researchers from Melbourne, and Ana Janzen is a German travel writer from Melbourne who writes for German travel magazines.

Jim was outa town on a gig out west, and so I was running tours all weekend. After our flower class on Saturday morning, I hosted an afternoon tour in the pouring rain, and there are no pictures to show you, as the city was so packed with rugby fans and people coming through after the huge march earlier in the day.

18/05/2026

We hosted a fantastic floral design class on Saturday at the where 11 women gathered to learn from my sister, Ulu Joana Sipeli Rakai has been a practising florist since the 90s working for Mr Honson, who owned small flower shop in the Honson Building on Thompson Street sharing the same space as Oasis, a small what we'd calll now a cafe but in those days they were called Milk Bars. She has since worked at countless hotels in the Mamanucas as both a florist and a landscaper.

The workshop was a fun, engaging and conversational space where our guests who travelled as far as Ba, Sigatoka and Waidroka spent their two hours learning about the different flowers, leaves and plants used and how to use their own creativity in floral design to learn about colour, form, texture and size.

We sourced all our flowers from the wild, driving where I grew up in Veisari, stopping at villages and homes, and going bush to collect our resources.

This past Saturday, we focused on tablescapes, and this Saturday, May 23rd, we host a workshop on wreaths.

Vinaka to Ulu, Alliancefrancaise Suva and our guests for the awesome workshop.

15/05/2026

Girmit Day group tour, hosted by Jim through a rather bustling city on a public holiday🙌🏾