Verbose

After that attack of economy-size verbosity yesterday, I’m just going to stick to some photographs of Viseisei today. Yeah, that’ll do very well. 

On the Queens Road, there was a vivid rainbow that day. On an impulse I asked
the gentleman who was driving me home if he'd turn off towards the sea and
he very graciously obliged.

Viseisei was one of the first places I visited in Fiji. The screenshot shows its
exact position on the route back from the Lautoka library to Denarau. I may be
 impulsive but I'm not vague :) 

Viseisei is a village located on a headland called Vuda Point. 

Children from the village playing in the waters. Vuda Point is where, according to
the local oral traditions, the ancestral Melanesians had landed 3500 years ago.

As per that mythical tradition, a vessel called Kaunitoni carrying the chiefly
Gods - Degei and Lutunasobasoba, sailed from the ancient homelands and
landed here on the north west coast of Viti Levu. 

Local man taking a stroll, he grew up around these parts but works in Suva now,
can't come as often as he'd like. He told me some of the traditions. The legend 
says that the ancestors built the first village at Vuda but then it was abandoned
and they moved further inland.

Viseisei is believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited  settlement in Viti
Levu. Ratu Josefa Iloilo, a former President of Fiji, was from Visesei. Both
QEII and Prince Charles have been received at this village during
royal visits to Fiji. 

Viseisei is a tourist attraction, there are buildings that go back to the 19th
century, a Saturday craft bazaar, a guided tour if you want one. I opted to
walk on the beach instead that day - no regrets, then and now. 

All this month I'm writing about Aspects of Fiji, which is where I'm at the mo. And where the sum of its verdant parts is verifiably greater than the whole!

Did you know that Fiji has 1171 villages in all? Of this 1151 are demarcated, 657 are gazetted. Read about how villages go through the process here.

And just on the off chance that you'll want to know some random, irreleVant facts about this series - the font used throughout is Verdana 12 point, the only other choice would be V for Vrinda. However, that seemed more suitable for fine-printey type of text, something you want hidden rather than read. 

~ Thank you for reading ~

Posted for the A-Z Challenge 2023