River tubing adventure for all ages

Boat ride up the scenic and pristine Navua River, through meandering rapids, passing cascading waterfalls, tropical rainforest and deep gorge. Waterfall swim, riverside lunch and tubing downriver interspersed with gentle rapids.

One of the best ways to beat the heat and have fun is to float down a scenic river in an inner tube.

The Navua River flows languidly down from the highlands, where family-owned River Tubing Fiji is ready to introduce you to your new favourite happy place.

River Tubing Fiji has its roots firmly established in the rich history and culture of the Namosi Highlands. Founder and owner William Rock Danford is a direct descendant of John Humphrey Danford, the lone Englishman who lived in the Namosi Highlands amongst the cannibal hill tribes in the 1800s. During his time, the pioneering Danford led many foreigners on expeditions up the Navua River. Today William follows his great-great-great grandfather’s footsteps.

With River Tubing Fiji, you do much more than just float your day away in a river donut. The Danford family and their crew will take you on an adventure where you also get to see locals going about their everyday life.

“Visitors to our part of Fiji get to witness the real Fiji,” said William.

“Villagers washing, spearfishing, hunting, cooking, farming, ladies weaving, children along the river playing, fishing, collecting firewood, swimming, etc. This is our idea of sustainable tourism where we maximize the benefits and reduce the impacts of tourism on these remote villagers,” he explained.

The day tour takes you from tiny Navua town on a longboat ride up the picturesque and pristine Navua River through meandering rapids, passing cascading waterfalls, tropical rainforests, deep gorge and breathtaking canyons. A visit to an iTaukei village in the Namosi Highlands is where you can observe life as it is for the villagers, without shows for the benefit of tourists. Heading back downstream on the longboat, enjoy a refreshing swim at an amazing waterfall pool. There is a compulsory safety briefing by guides before you tube down the river interspersed with gentle rapids.

While soaking up the natural setting and some Fijian sunshine, you get to travel down the waterway just fast enough to keep things interesting but not so quickly that it’s dangerous.