Cruising Fiji: The ultimate disconnect

Just cruising: Fulaga Lagoon. Photo: Katrina Lobley

Katrina Lobley

It took three years of negotiations over much kava before a cruise line could set sail for Fiji’s remote Lau islands, writes Katrina Lobley.
The few scraps I glean about Fiji’s 57 Lau islands, before cruising among them, come from travel writer Paul Theroux. In The Happy Isles of Oceania, Theroux describes the Lau group as “one of the pretty little star-clusters in the universe of Oceania”.