As the sun goes down enjoy nightly from 6.00 pm our resident Fijian band singing some of the world's most best cover songs including all the popular Fijian songs.

Each Wednesday at Amunuca there are a couple of uniquely pacific island things you will experience, traditions that began over 3,000 years ago. One is a Lovo, the other a Meke, songs and dance that represent the Fijian culture.
 


This is a magnificent feast, cooked in the earth. It's like a barbeque, only Fijian style. Our chefs with the help of the Yanuya Island Warriors prepares each Wednesday evening the underground oven in which food (vegetables. fish, chicken and meat) is wrapped in banana leaves and cooked slowly over smouldering stones, providing a distinctive, delicious flavour.

Specially selected stones are placed in a hot fire and left to absorb the heat. When the rocks are sufficiently heated, they are pulled from the flames and placed in the bottom of a shallow pit.

All the food is tightly wrapped in a weave of palm fronds or banana leaves before being placed in the bottom of the lovo pit lined with hot rocks. On top goes various traditional root crops including dalo (the potato like root of the taro plant), cassava (the root of the tapioca plant) and Uvi (wild yam).

Once the steaming pit is filled with food, the entire hole is filled with earth and left to 'cook' for anywhere from two to three hours depending on the amount of food.

Watching the preparation of a lovo is also a lot of fun, this can be experienced at the lovo pit, at the pool end of the tennis court from 4.30pm .

Unearthing the lovo is done with great celebration and the succulent food which emerges is unwrapped and placed on large banana leaves to cool before the feast begins. And what a feast it is. Indulge and enjoy!
 

A meke is a traditional Fijian dance.

It is typically performed during celebrations and festivals. At Amunuca after your delicious lovo we celebrate every Wednesday night, you our guest. Male dance is called the meke moto usually involving long spears. The dance is meant to symbolize the ancient warriors of the village. The female dance is called the seasea and involves the performers making rapid motions with their hands and arms.

The males wear skirts made from vau, thin strips of the trunk of the vau tree. They also decorate their faces with a black paste made from charcoal and coconut oil, making a small circle on each cheek. Their wrists and ankles are decorated with leaves tied together to form bracelets. They do not wear shirts or shoes when performing a traditional meke. The women wear sulus with patterns similar to that of the traditional tapa cloth. They also wear silk short sleeve shirts all of the same color, though these colors will vary from meke to meke. Similar to the men they wear bracelets made from leaves and paint each cheek with a single circle. Around their necks the women will wear a salusalu, a loose necklace made from part of the banana tree or from a single white shell.