Browse for fascinating souvenirs at a local handicraft market, check out traditional practices at a frozen-in-time village, and watch artisans make delicate pottery and palm furniture. Explore the Coral Coast with an experienced guide on this full-day excursion around Fiji's southwestern shores.

Start your day at Baravi Handicrafts market, after catching a convenient ride from your hotel, where you can spend some time checking out the creations of local artists and wood carvers who use age-old techniques to make beautiful souvenirs. Pick up a few items for friends and family and then continue your cultural immersion with a stop at a Fijian Village.

Take the afternoon to sip some stress-reducing kava, and snap photos of this antiquated community's thatched roof houses. Check out the dexterous hands at work at a nearby pottery studio before grabbing lunch and the chance to do more shopping in city centre Sigatoka. Just outside town at Pacific Green, admire the stunning chairs, sofas, tables, and lamps of this world-class furniture factory, and then wrap up your day swimming, snorkelling, and soaking up some sun on the sugary sands of Natadola Beach.