Rakiraki town 🇫🇯

[@filipeturagabeci4018]

Absolutely stunning my hometown . 🔥🙂

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

I love Rakiraki. 😃

[@SetaWaisavu]

Azeem, I'm Ozzie from Rakiraki when Vaileka was a ONE St Town. As you get downhill, a stretch, caneflds left and right. Shops to the right, govt Admin left, until the bridge.

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Nice to hear from you! 😃

[@prophet1782]

It's a Farming Town up north far away from Touristy Places like Nandi, lautoka and Suva. Sort of a country town. Thanks for showing Pale Blue.

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

So nice of you to say so. Thank you! 👍🏽✌🏽👌🏽

[@roberthearn213]

I visited rakiraki ,I loved Fiji and the Fijian people so much .

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

You should come back soon! 😃👍🏼🇫🇯

[@roberthearn213]

@@ThePaleBlueDot I will be hopefully .I’m a kiwi with no ties to Fiji but it just felt like home I don’t know why but I loved it

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

@@roberthearn213 glad to hear. 😃😃

[@mlovingnaturetravelandcult3777]

Lovely to see my hometown , Rakiraki in the beautiful Fiji Islands … was never “dull”to us 😊

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

It really is! :)

[@mlovingnaturetravelandcult3777]

For you only mate!

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

@@mlovingnaturetravelandcult3777 i mean it is never dull to me too! 😃😃 Always a beautiful day in paradise!

[@mlovingnaturetravelandcult3777]

@@ThePaleBlueDot 🤷

[@prophet1782]

@@ThePaleBlueDot I'd love to live there with dogs and chicken etc. For excitement can always go to Lautoka and Nandi occasionally.

[@nikeeddie9430]

Thank you for reminding me about my small town in rakiraki.wow for me it changed alot n now they got a proper market. It just confuse me a little bit cos there's alot of stores around,in my old days it wasn't alot shops there n now I can sees my town is growing. I can hia that coffee lady's was talking about my moms island called Malake. Thank mate for reminding me of back ground. God bless

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

So nice of you

[@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855]

They have a great indoors market now since after 2006 military coup To have good place for selling is something that was done during those years 2006 to 2022 So that all can enjoy going to the market in Viti Levu especially

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

It’s a very nice market. I like it a lot.

[@raolhooley]

Actually the town is called vaileka

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

You're 100% correct, Grant.

[@ronaldosingh7485]

Nakauvadra range is where snake Gods reside. Good old memories of my home town ragrag.

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

I should be going up there in the dry season, Ronaldo Singh.

[@atlas5651]

I absolutely LOVE your videos!!!! 😄👌 🌿🙌🏾 Your such a great guide!

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Thanks, Leisha! :)

[@raturaiko9784]

I agree its a very dull town…. And im from there

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

It didn’t used to be. It was livelier in the past. 😃

[@ashritadevi9908]

Beautiful place

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Rakiraki is a beautiful town. 😃👌🏽👍🏽✌🏽

[@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855]

The Crazy town of the chauvus from Ra Udreudre Hey baiya Khan you no longer posting a lot you went back to overseas home right no wonder Post a lot from that side we still going to watch

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Don’t worry. I’ll be posting again soon. The weather has been a factor plus I’m just doing a little reorganizing.

[@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855]

You like the Waka Family Batisaresare of Nanieda Seaqaqa Macuata Province only in Fiji Islands they post a lot everyday and night back in their home Canada no posts Keep posting videos guys and photos and whatelse medias you do

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

I’d like to visit it one day.

[@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855]

They should make an Amusement Park there

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Agreed. Would liven the place up.

[@najban2922]

Azeem, show us Tavua town please and also halal food place if there is any. Thank you so much for showing us around Fiji.

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Hi, najban, I will try and do a vlog on Tavua soon. :)

[@najban2922]

@@ThePaleBlueDot Thank you and looking forward to that.

[@indianrita80]

Beautiful video ❤️❤️sad to see the sugar cane mill go away for farmer’s 💔but it is ,what it is.

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Sadly, yes. It was a beautifully small mill. Lots of history out that way.

[@jacekkubiak3551]

Been there in 2009 ... ❤

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

It’s an intriguing little town. 😃

[@premgopal4573]

Didn't know Penang mill is shut down. So sad for the local cane farmers.

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Sadly, yes. Been shut a while.

[@maikatupua8228]

The stories of Nakauvadra is just a romanticised tale of something that took place in stories. A story which intepret as where the hill which Ancestors descended.... but in fact those that settled Fiji came by sea, and no one descended from the mountains. Nakauvadra is a story of an ancestral mythology of a group of Fijians ...those that came from West-Guadalcanal in the the Solomon Islands. It is said that they were the last arrivals runaways from headhunters back home. They have silent T's in their language. This so because they had tongue piercing on their tongue tips producing T sound wasn't possible now the practice have gone but language still remains.

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

The stories are worth listening to. ✌️✌️

[@simionenauluvula7981]

​@@ThePaleBlueDot....thanks 4 the video Sir.. but I want to reply to @maikatupuas comment..on this..Fiji does not came from Guadalcanal in the Solomon Island running away from headhunters.. bulshit stories..we fijians knows our History well. We just enroute through Solomon waters then to fiji. I just want to remind him of that..sorry for responding through your chat message..great day to you..cheers 🥂

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

@@simionenauluvula7981 no worries. 😃

[@simionenauluvula7981]

@@ThePaleBlueDot Thanks

[@taleinz1]

Fiji my beautiful fiji

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

I love this town.

[@netaninaiseruvati7134]

Nice Video and first Time I see Penang Mill I only learned it in School.Make a Trip to the Old Capital of Fiji Levuka you'll find all the History of Fiji there ✌️

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Yes, Levuka is high on my list. :)

[@taleinz1]

I’m from fiji , born and raised but live in OZ now and Levuka is top of my list .

[@taleinz1]

Have a read of the article - super interesting

[@lishnaiceru8308]

Vinaka Azeem, it's a huge change now, 🤣 your friend Valiti (his my junior in primary school). Love from Sydney

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Vinaka, lish. Valiti is such a nice guy. Really genuine person.

[@slewa-finiasi2463]

Just when you were fascinated with the island, you discover there’s a “horror story” part too 🤣😂🤣😂. So funny, but that’s how we story-tell at home 🏝❤️

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Rakiraki is deadly dull! 😂🤣

[@raolhooley]

@@ThePaleBlueDot I have spent a lot of time around nandovi and vaileka and I assure you mr dot,you havnt dug deep enough..lol.agreed it's not pretty as compare to say,Ba.but then very few towns in Fiji are known for their beauty..maybe levuka but it has taken a hit with last cyclone..suva in the eighties was a lovely post colonial city now it is halfway to becoming just another trashy nondescript city.lautoka used to be quite nise but has been hit hard by the indian exodus and I was shocked at how down at heel it is now. prouds being allowed to build into the park has desecrated what was a lovely parade..I was so shocked they had done that.especially when they could have demolished any area of the city centre to build it and it would have been an improvement . I had considered travel writing but over the years I decided I couldn't given the way tourism and development can destroy what was there..on most of my travels I am left thinking,wish I was here ten years ago,fifty,sometimes one hundred years..lol. Fiji does have a place in my heart tho,regardless of what they do to it. As Patrick white once said...worship in a ruin..lol

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

@@raolhooley Absolutely, agree. I need to dig deeper. There is so much undocumented about these towns.

[@lynettesmp]

The Solomon islanders have the blonde hair, they're the only ones.

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

It's a trait across Melanesia not just the Solomon Islands.

[@missmel7761]

Fiji got blondies everywhere dumb to assume only Solomon’s have blondies lol

[@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855]

Meself from Kadavu and Cakaudrove Vanua Levu we have blondes women men cousins aunties uncles as well The only difference they mostly fair not darker like the Solomon Islanders The Chauvus from Ra are Solomon Islanders maybe from Malaita

[@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855]

Rakiraki Penang Sugarmill

[@maryannlagataki7138]

your know everything about ra

[@maryannlagataki7138]

sir pls comment down when you are going to the next tirp

[@maryannlagataki7138]

woww

[@harikaranananthan6276]

🌞🌴🌴🌴🌻🌻🌻🙏😎 Thanks 💐

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

No problem.

[@surge534]

How do you manage to get good video quality in Fiji??

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

I used a GoPro Hero 8 on this occasion but when I use my Sony camera, the quality is much better.

[@alvinkumar8059]

you know, we do have tech here in Fiji...

[@surge534]

@@alvinkumar8059 yea ik was born their lmao, im just saying whenever I watch a fijian video it's in a really bad quality

[@alvinkumar8059]

@@surge534 cos most of them use camera settings on low resolution.... or just don't have high end fones..

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

@@alvinkumar8059 Yes!

[@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855]

Olden CSR FSC PENANG SUGARMILL CLOSED BECAUSE OLD

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Yes. Was alway a small operation too.

[@hncookingchannel8128]

Nice

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Thanks!

[@soneelita]

Nice video.

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Thank you, soneelita! :)

[@yungming2046]

Dam my mum is from ra this like unknown part of fiji

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Ra is my favorite part of Fiji. There is so much history there. I'm afraid I'm not too fond of Rakiraki town.

[@libbyrena5900]

23:39 correction Funded by The Australian Government opened by the Fiji Government

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Thanks for the correction.

[@christophergeorge8724]

Is your family Fijian?

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Yes. 😃 My parents migrated to London in the mid-1960s then moved back to Fiji later.

[@christophergeorge8724]

@@ThePaleBlueDot How long is a flight from Englsnf to Fiji?

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

@@christophergeorge8724 About 26 hours! Long way!

[@MrB590]

@@ThePaleBlueDot u fijian Indian?

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

@@MrB590 yes! 😃

[@simstarfanclub2440]

🙃🙃

[@maikatupua8228]

It is not pronounced rehkirehki but rahkirahki.

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

I believe it can be pronounced either way.

[@maikatupua8228]

@@ThePaleBlueDot Nuh you are wrong mate... I reckon that is disrespectful when wrong pronunciation happens.

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

@@maikatupua8228 no, you’re wrong. There is no disrespect. Half the town pronounces it one way or the other.

[@prophet1782]

@@ThePaleBlueDot.... It's spelt Raki Raki but prounced Reki Reki. You are right Sir it can be pro. either way but Reki Reki sounds more appropriate.

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

@@prophet1782 Thank you! I agree entirely with you! ✌🏽👍🏽👌🏽😎

[@surge534]

Are you Hispanic or indian??

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

I'm Indo-Fijian, Surge. But raised in London and with a home in Italy.

[@aiminghigh3162]

@@ThePaleBlueDot Hi Azeem, I was born in Suva, my parents immigrated to Vancouver, BC Canada in 1964. I've visited Fiji on 2 separate occasions, for extended vacations. Visited the Lau group on last visit, as my great grandfather was the lighthouse keeper on Wailagilala island approx. 1915 - 1920. Absolute Paradise out there! I just got a GoPro...so I better start using it and make my own travel videos! Whereabouts in Italy do you live? Ive always wanted to visit Italy! Love your channel ! Thanks for the tours!

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

@@aiminghigh3162 Wow! A fantastic bit of history! I think I’ve heard of that lighthouse. Is that the one that collapsed in the early 2000s? I have a place in Matera, Italy. It’s the Italian town featured at the start of the new James Bond film. I hope to go back later this year to do a vlog tentatively called: “A Fijian in Matera” (I am the only Fijian living in Matera!) so stay tuned!

[@prophet1782]

@@ThePaleBlueDot ...Show us Italy also. Amazing! Born in Fiji ,raised in London ,living in Italy. Enjoy your life. Good Luck and thank you

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

@@prophet1782 Yes! I can't wait to show everyone Matera in Basilicata where I moved to in 2015 and the almost 60 towns in the same region that I visited and was welcomed with so much hospitality. I was often told that not only was I the first Fijian and non-Italian to travel so widely in Basilicata but I was probably the first person ever (including Italians)! 😎😎

[@Tee-gx2xm]

What do you mean by Dull, I see nothing dull about the town.....

[@maryannlagataki7138]

hello im your one of your follow pls sir one day we will meet pls

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

Sure. One day. :)

[@buildking7018]

You make me so mad

[@ThePaleBlueDot]

😂😂😂