Rakiraki town 🇫🇯

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Rakiraki town 🇫🇯

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Okay, okay. The town of Rakiraki (also known as Vaileka) in the province of Ra in Fiji may not be the most exciting place in the world but, like a curate's egg, it's good in parts. I had intended to make a vlog highlighting the beginnings of Fijian identity in Ra but, at the last minute, a hitch in my plans made it impossible. For the time being, I am keeping you in suspense on this project! Instead, I find myself wandering quite aimlessly in Rakiraki taking it in and thinking maybe it isn't all that dull...
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@filipeturagabeci4018 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely stunning my hometown . 🔥🙂

@ThePaleBlueDot Жыл бұрын

I love Rakiraki. 😃

@user-sx6gd8zc6y Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Nice to hear from you! 😃

@prophet1782 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@roberthearn213 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

You should come back soon! 😃👍🏼🇫🇯

@roberthearn213 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

@@roberthearn213 glad to hear. 😃😃

@mlovingnaturetravelandcult3777 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

It really is! :)

@mlovingnaturetravelandcult3777 2 жыл бұрын

For you only mate!

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

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

@mlovingnaturetravelandcult3777 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePaleBlueDot 🤷

@prophet1782 2 жыл бұрын

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

@nikeeddie9430 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

So nice of you

@ashritadevi9908 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful place

@ThePaleBlueDot Жыл бұрын

Rakiraki is a beautiful town. 😃👌🏽👍🏽✌🏽

@atlas5651 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Leisha! :)

@ronaldosingh7485 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

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

@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@raturaiko9784 4 ай бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 4 ай бұрын

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

@premgopal4573 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

Sadly, yes. Been shut a while.

@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855 Жыл бұрын

They should make an Amusement Park there

@ThePaleBlueDot Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Would liven the place up.

@netaninaiseruvati7134 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, Levuka is high on my list. :)

@taleinz1 Жыл бұрын

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

@taleinz1 Жыл бұрын

Have a read of the article - super interesting

@taleinz1 Жыл бұрын

Fiji my beautiful fiji

@ThePaleBlueDot Жыл бұрын

I love this town.

@jacekkubiak3551 6 ай бұрын

Been there in 2009 ... ❤

@ThePaleBlueDot 6 ай бұрын

It’s an intriguing little town. 😃

@najban2922 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@najban2922 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePaleBlueDot Thank you and looking forward to that.

@indianrita80 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

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

@raolhooley Жыл бұрын

Actually the town is called vaileka

@ThePaleBlueDot Жыл бұрын

You're 100% correct, Grant.

@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

I’d like to visit it one day.

@slewa-finiasi2463 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Rakiraki is deadly dull! 😂🤣

@raolhooley Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

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

@lishnaiceru8308 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

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

@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855 Жыл бұрын

Rakiraki Penang Sugarmill

@maikatupua8228 2 жыл бұрын

It is not pronounced rehkirehki but rahkirahki.

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

I believe it can be pronounced either way.

@maikatupua8228 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

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

@prophet1782 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@maikatupua8228 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

The stories are worth listening to. ✌️✌️

@simionenauluvula7981 Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

@@simionenauluvula7981 no worries. 😃

@simionenauluvula7981 Жыл бұрын

@@ThePaleBlueDot Thanks

@maryannlagataki7138 2 жыл бұрын

your know everything about ra

@lynettesmp 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

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

@missmel7761 2 жыл бұрын

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

@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855 Жыл бұрын

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

@soneelita 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video.

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, soneelita! :)

@maryannlagataki7138 2 жыл бұрын

woww

@harikaranananthan6276 2 жыл бұрын

🌞🌴🌴🌴🌻🌻🌻🙏😎 Thanks 💐

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

No problem.

@surge534 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

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

@alvinkumar8059 2 жыл бұрын

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

@surge534 2 жыл бұрын

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

@alvinkumar8059 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

@@alvinkumar8059 Yes!

@maryannlagataki7138 2 жыл бұрын

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

@hncookingchannel8128 2 жыл бұрын

Nice

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@dimereseininrobbyravouvou2855 Жыл бұрын

Olden CSR FSC PENANG SUGARMILL CLOSED BECAUSE OLD

@ThePaleBlueDot Жыл бұрын

Yes. Was alway a small operation too.

@simstarfanclub2440 2 жыл бұрын

🙃🙃

@christophergeorge8724 2 жыл бұрын

Is your family Fijian?

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

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

@christophergeorge8724 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

@@christophergeorge8724 About 26 hours! Long way!

@MrB590 Жыл бұрын

@@ThePaleBlueDot u fijian Indian?

@ThePaleBlueDot Жыл бұрын

@@MrB590 yes! 😃

@libbyrena5900 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the correction.

@yungming2046 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

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

@surge534 2 жыл бұрын

Are you Hispanic or indian??

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

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

@aiminghigh3162 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ThePaleBlueDot 2 жыл бұрын

@@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)! 😎😎