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Roots Earth in Sigatoka: audio stories about 40 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 40 places in Sigatoka, Fiji, in Oceania. The Sigatoka stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Sigatoka, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 40 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: sigatoka.md

The 40 places in Sigatoka with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Sigatoka Sand Dunes
  2. Sigatoka River
  3. Tavuni Hill Fort
  4. Kula WILD Adventure Park
  5. Coral Coast
  6. Sigatoka Valley
  7. Sigatoka Town Centre
  8. Nadroga-Navosa Province
  9. Sri Krishna Kaliya Temple
  10. Viti Levu Island
  11. Sigatoka Bridge
  12. Naihehe Cave
  13. Sigatoka Methodist Church
  14. St Joan of Arc Catholic Church
  15. Kalevu South Pacific Cultural Centre
  16. Sigatoka River Safari
  17. Kulukulu Village
  18. Lawaqa Park
  19. Biausevu Waterfall
  20. Tagaqe Village
  21. Korotogo
  22. Cuvu Beach
  23. Lawai Pottery Village
  24. Fiji Museum
  25. Nadi
  26. Suva
  27. Sigatoka Municipal Market
  28. Sigatoka Bus Station
  29. Korotogo Cafe Strip
  30. Sigatoka Kava (Yaqona) Market
  31. Lawai Village
  32. Yadua Settlement
  33. Sigatoka Sub-Divisional Hospital
  34. Indo-Fijian Quarter
  35. Girmit (Indentured Labour) Heritage Site
  36. Sigatoka Riverbank Walk
  37. Sigatoka Lovo Food Lane
  38. Sigatoka Old Cemetery
  39. Cuvu College Student Quarter
  40. Kulukulu Surf Beach

Is there an audio guide for Sigatoka Sand Dunes?

Yes. Sigatoka Sand Dunes has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 40 Sigatoka places in the app, at -18.168, 177.485. Every one of the other 39 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Sigatoka

Open Roots Earth and choose Sigatoka. The city has its own map of places with all 40 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 40 places in Sigatoka, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 40 places in Sigatoka, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Sigatoka Sand Dunes

Coordinates
-18.168, 177.485
In one line
Wind-sculpted parabolic dunes rising up to 60 meters at the mouth of the Sigatoka River, this became Fiji's first national park in 1989 and holds pottery and burials more than 2,600 years old.

2. Sigatoka River

Coordinates
-18.1756, 177.52
In one line
Flowing roughly 120 kilometers from the slopes of Mount Victoria to the sea, this river was long the only route into the interior of Viti Levu, feeding the farms of the valley and carrying jet-boat safaris into traditional villages today.

3. Tavuni Hill Fort

Coordinates
-18.133, 177.528
In one line
A fortified hilltop village built in the 18th century by the Tongan chief Maile Latumai on a limestone ridge above the Sigatoka River, with ring-ditch defenses, terraces, and a killing stone. It fell to government troops in 1876.

4. Kula WILD Adventure Park

Coordinates
-18.189, 177.595

5. Coral Coast

Coordinates
-18.26945, 177.88955
In one line
The fringing-reef coastline of southern Viti Levu running between Sigatoka and Suva, this is Fiji's classic resort coast, a string of beaches, villages, and hotels with the riverside town of Sigatoka as its tourism centre.

6. Sigatoka Valley

Coordinates
-18.05, 177.55
In one line
The fertile river valley inland of Sigatoka town, famous as the Salad Bowl of Fiji for its market gardens of vegetables, fruits, and spices, and dense with villages, hill forts, and ancient archaeological sites.

7. Sigatoka Town Centre

Coordinates
-18.14139, 177.50694
In one line
Established as a town in 1959 at the mouth of the Sigatoka River, this riverside market hub of roughly 17,600 people is the commercial centre of the Coral Coast, where valley produce meets the visitor trade.

8. Nadroga-Navosa Province

Coordinates
-18, 177.66667
In one line
Nadroga-Navosa is the province wrapping southwest Viti Levu, joining coast, river valley, and highland. Around 59,000 people live here, farming the fertile Sigatoka Valley, fishing the reefs, and guarding some of Fiji's oldest archaeological sites.

9. Sri Krishna Kaliya Temple

Coordinates
-18.1425, 177.5055
In one line
Sri Krishna Kaliya Temple is a Hare Krishna temple serving Sigatoka's Indo-Fijian community. Following the global Krishna movement founded in 1966, it centers worship on Krishna, fills with chanting and color, and comes alive at festivals such as Diwali.

10. Viti Levu Island

Coordinates
-17.8, 178
In one line
Viti Levu is Fiji's largest island, roughly 10,400 square kilometers split by a mountain spine. It holds the capital Suva, Nadi, and the Coral Coast, and is home to about 70 percent of Fijians. Sigatoka sits at its river mouth.

11. Sigatoka Bridge

Coordinates
-18.1405, 177.5095
In one line
Sigatoka Bridge carries Queens Road across the wide mouth of the Sigatoka River, linking the two halves of town and the Coral Coast beyond. From its span, travelers look down on bamboo rafts, the riverside market, and the valley running inland.

12. Naihehe Cave

Coordinates
-18, 177.58
In one line
Naihehe Cave is a vast limestone cavern in the upper Sigatoka Valley, once the fortified hideout of the Sautabu people. Inside lie a ritual platform, a priest's chamber, and dripping stalactites, with a low entrance built to confuse attackers.

13. Sigatoka Methodist Church

Coordinates
-18.1435, 177.508
In one line
Sigatoka Methodist Church serves the town's indigenous iTaukei community in the Wesleyan tradition that has shaped Fijian Christianity for generations. On Sundays it fills with powerful hymn singing, the harmony for which Fijian Methodism is famous across the Pacific.

14. St Joan of Arc Catholic Church

Coordinates
-18.142, 177.5065
In one line
Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Church serves Sigatoka's Catholic community within the Archdiocese of Suva, the fruit of Marist missionary work begun in Fiji in 1844. Named for the French saint, it gathers parishioners for Mass beneath its altar and statuary.

15. Kalevu South Pacific Cultural Centre

Coordinates
-18.185, 177.58
In one line
A living-village attraction on the Coral Coast near Sigatoka, opened in January 2002, where thatched bure house displays of pottery, tapa cloth, weapons, and kava and lovo demonstrations bring traditional Fijian and wider Pacific life into focus.

16. Sigatoka River Safari

Coordinates
-18.135, 177.515
In one line
Billed among the world's first jet-boat village safaris.

17. Kulukulu Village

Coordinates
-18.165, 177.49
In one line
A village at the mouth of the Sigatoka River, west of town, serving as the gateway to the Sigatoka Sand Dunes national park.

18. Lawaqa Park

Coordinates
-18.138, 177.512
In one line
Sigatoka's rugby stadium, opened in 1998, with room for around 11,500, is the fortress of the Nadroga Stallions, the nation's most decorated provincial side and long-running holders of the Farebrother-Sullivan Cup.

19. Biausevu Waterfall

Coordinates
-18.2, 177.7
In one line
A two-tiered, roughly 20-metre cascade also called Savu Na Mate Laya, reached by a rainforest trail and stream crossings from Biausevu village on the Coral Coast. Visitors are welcomed with a kava ceremony before walking to the swimming hole at its base.

20. Tagaqe Village

Coordinates
-18.19, 177.62
In one line
A traditional Fijian village on the Coral Coast east of Sigatoka, neighbour to a large beach resort. Its everyday life of gardens, church, and kava blends with cultural sharing, from weaving and woodcarving to firewalking, for visitors staying nearby.

21. Korotogo

Coordinates
-18.16, 177.55
In one line
A resort settlement on the Coral Coast just east of Sigatoka, home to leading beach hotels and to the Kula wildlife park. Roughly 93 kilometres from Suva along the Queens Road, it anchors much of Nadroga's tourism strip beside the fringing reef.

22. Cuvu Beach

Coordinates
-18.18, 177.57
In one line
Cuvu Beach lies on Fiji's Coral Coast east of Sigatoka, where a fringing reef calms the shallows.

23. Lawai Pottery Village

Coordinates
-18.13, 177.495
In one line
Lawai, a village near Sigatoka in Nadroga-Navosa, keeps Fiji's living pottery tradition. Working clay by hand without a wheel, its potters continue a craft carried by the Lapita, who made their first Fijian settlement in this very province more than 2,000 years ago.

25. Nadi

Coordinates
-17.8, 177.41667
In one line
Nadi, on western Viti Levu, is Fiji's main gateway, home to the nation's largest international airport. A multicultural town built on tourism and sugar cane, it hosts the Sri Siva Subramaniya temple, said to be the largest Hindu temple in the Southern Hemisphere.

26. Suva

Coordinates
-18.1416, 178.4419
In one line
Suva, on Viti Levu's south-east coast, became Fiji's capital in 1882 and its first city in 1952. The political, economic and cultural heart of the South Pacific, it blends colonial architecture, a busy harbour, and one of the region's most diverse urban populations.

27. Sigatoka Municipal Market

Coordinates
-18.141, 177.5075
In one line
Sigatoka Municipal Market is the riverside heart of the town, where the produce of the Sigatoka Valley, Fiji's Salad Bowl, is piled high. Farmers, fishers and traders fill its stalls daily, making it the busy commercial centre of the Coral Coast.

28. Sigatoka Bus Station

Coordinates
-18.14, 177.5085
In one line
Sigatoka Bus Station, beside the town's market on the Queens Road, is the transport hub of the Coral Coast. Open-sided buses gather here to carry valley farmers, coastal workers and travellers between villages, resorts and the cities of Nadi and Suva.

29. Korotogo Cafe Strip

Coordinates
-18.158, 177.545
In one line
A relaxed Coral Coast café and resort strip at Korotogo, just east of Sigatoka in Nadroga-Navosa Province. Beachfront eateries, small hotels, and craft markets cater to travellers drawn by warm lagoons and fringing reef.

30. Sigatoka Kava (Yaqona) Market

Coordinates
-18.1415, 177.507
In one line
The kava section of Sigatoka's riverside market, where vendors sell bundled yaqona roots and ground powder. Central to Fijian ceremony and daily social life, kava is prepared into an earthy, calming drink shared from a communal bowl.

31. Lawai Village

Coordinates
-18.125, 177.49
In one line
An iTaukei village near Sigatoka in Nadroga-Navosa Province, long associated with traditional Fijian pottery. Women shape and fire clay vessels by hand, continuing a craft the province is known for alongside tapa cloth and salt-making.

32. Yadua Settlement

Coordinates
-18.11, 177.52
In one line
A farming settlement in the Sigatoka Valley of Nadroga-Navosa Province, set among the market gardens that make the region the salad bowl of Fiji. Village life here turns on the river, the land, and the chiefly customs of the iTaukei.

33. Sigatoka Sub-Divisional Hospital

Coordinates
-18.143, 177.505
In one line
Sigatoka's public hospital, the main sub-divisional health facility for Nadroga-Navosa Province. Largely state-funded with minimal fees for residents, it serves the valley, the coast, and the resort districts as the area's central point of care.

34. Indo-Fijian Quarter

Coordinates
-18.142, 177.509
In one line
The Indo-Fijian heart of Sigatoka town, where shops, eateries, and a Hindu temple reflect a community descended from indentured cane labourers. Fiji Hindi, curry houses, and family-run trade shape this lively commercial quarter.

35. Girmit (Indentured Labour) Heritage Site

Coordinates
-18.1425, 177.5105
In one line
A place of memory honouring the girmitiyas, the indentured labourers brought from India to Fiji's cane fields between 1879 and 1916. Their endurance under harsh contracts founded the Indo-Fijian community and reshaped the nation, now marked each Girmit Day.

36. Sigatoka Riverbank Walk

Coordinates
-18.1425, 177.512
In one line
The Sigatoka Riverbank Walk follows the wide lower reaches of Fiji's Sigatoka River, the 120-kilometre waterway that drains the valley known as the Salad Bowl. Bamboo rafts, market boats, and tidal mudflats line the easy town-edge path.

37. Sigatoka Lovo Food Lane

Coordinates
-18.1405, 177.5065
In one line
Sigatoka Lovo Food Lane gathers cooks who serve food from the lovo, the Fijian earth oven where taro, cassava, fish, and pork steam for hours on hot stones buried under earth and leaves. It is a living taste of communal Fijian feasting.

38. Sigatoka Old Cemetery

Coordinates
-18.145, 177.504
In one line
Sigatoka Old Cemetery holds the graves of the river town that took shape through the colonial era and became a town in 1959. Its weathered headstones trace the Wesleyan Methodist faith, the cane-farming settlers, and the mixed community that grew at the river mouth.

39. Cuvu College Student Quarter

Coordinates
-18.175, 177.565
In one line
The Cuvu College Student Quarter sits in the Cuvu district east of Sigatoka, one of the historic divisions of Nadroga-Navosa Province. A neighbourhood shaped by its school, it carries the everyday rhythm of student life along the Coral Coast.

40. Kulukulu Surf Beach

Coordinates
-18.172, 177.488
In one line
Kulukulu Surf Beach lies where the Sigatoka River meets the sea, beneath the Sigatoka Sand Dunes. Reached through Kulukulu village, it is Fiji's rare beach break, a powerful river-mouth wave fronting dunes up to 60 metres tall.

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