Tavuni Hill Fort

Detour inland from the Queen's Highway just past the Sigatoka Bridge	Naroro village, Viti Levu-Fiji	Lush green interior of Viti Levu	Tavuni Hill Fort National Archaeological Site, Fiji
Visitor's Centre - Tavuni Hill Fort	Details about Tavuni Hill Fort	Tavuni was settled by an exiled Tongan chief, Maile Latamai	Old engraving of a warrior - Tavuni
Old engraving of a warrior - Tavuni	Traditional warrior hairstyles in the 19th Century	Map of the Tavuni Hill Fort, Fiji	View from the Tavuni Fort visitor's centre with the Sigatoka River
The small village of Naroro at the base of Tavuni Hill Fort	Tavuni Hill Fort - a Tongan Fortification Hillfort - 'Kolo'	The Tavuni Hill Fort was established in the early 1800's by Tongan exiles	I had the fort and the informative guide to myself
56 house mounds have been discovered at Tavuni Hill Fort	Remains of a cooking over	The British destroyed the Tavuni Hill Fort using native troops in 1876	View of the Sigatoka River from Tavuni Hill Fort
Tavuni Hill Fort was excavated and opened as an archaeological park in 1994	Tavuni Hill Fort commands the heights over a bend in the Sigatoka River 8 km from the sea	Sigatoka River from Tavuni Hill Fort	Bend in the Sigatoka River looking north from Tavuni Hill Fort
Cannibal Altar - Tavuni Hill Fort	Vatu Ni Bokola - Killing Stone, Tavuni Hill Fort	The victims head rested on the top stone with the neck over the slit for decapitation	Ritual area of Tavuni Hill Fort
Phallic Rock, Tavuni Hill Fort	Tavuni Hill Fort was defended by a series of ditches and thorny bushes	Sigatoka River from Tavuni Hill Fort	Changing demographics - house with a small Hindu temple just north of the Tavuni Hill Fort
Remains of the defensive works destroyed under British command in 1876	A house adjacent to the Tavuni Hill Fort	Panoramic view of the bend in the Sigatoka River at Tavuni Hill Fort	Sigtatoka River from Tavuni Hill Fort
Large banyan tree within the Tavuni Hill Fort	Large banyan tree within the Tavuni Hill Fort	Large banyan tree within the Tavuni Hill Fort	Hills and flowers, Tavuni Hill Fort
Henibua Circle - the descendants of the original Tongan settlers eventually adopted Christianity	Chief's burial place at Henibua Circle	Green hills around the fort at Tavuni	Naroro Village, Fiji
Naroro Village, Fiji	Sigatoka River, Fiji	Farmland near the Tavuni Hill Fort	Indian brown mongoose (Herpestes fuscus) introduced to control rats in the sugarcane fields