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Suva, Fiji
While most Fiji visitors head straight for the resort islands, Suva offers a genuinely urban Pacific experience. The city center features colonial-era buildings, the Suva Municipal Market — the largest in the South Pacific — and the Fiji Museum in Thurston Gardens, which houses a remarkable collection including the rudder from HMS Bounty. Walking along Victoria Parade past the government buildings and the Grand Pacific Hotel (where Queen Elizabeth II stayed) gives a sense of the colonial era. The Suva Flea Market is a treasure trove of handicrafts, sulu cloth, and kava. The University of the South Pacific campus is the intellectual hub of the Pacific Islands, and the surrounding residential neighborhoods offer leafy walks past traditional bures and colonial houses.
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Suva is one of the wettest capitals in the world — carry an umbrella at all times, and walk in the mornings when rain is less likely.
May through October is the drier, cooler season; Suva receives rain year-round, so be prepared regardless of timing.