Country shortlist

Best snorkeling in Fiji

The Double Fathom shortlist for Fiji, ranked — 1 catalog destination. The grouping is ours; every rank and tagline is the catalog’s own.

Fiji appears in our catalog as one destination, but it is an island country rather than a single island: the sheltered lagoons of the Mamanucas and Yasawas within reach of Nadi, the soft-coral reefs off Taveuni, the protected water and shark reserve at Beqa Lagoon in the south, and fringing reef along Viti Levu's Coral Coast. It is warm-water, easy-going snorkeling with one distinction worth keeping straight — the soft-coral sites and the shark feed are dives, and the snorkeling is the shallows and the lagoons.

What we cover — and what we don’t

Where we cover Fiji: one destination, five areas — the Mamanuca and Yasawa island groups, Rainbow Reef off Taveuni, Beqa Lagoon and the Coral Coast of Viti Levu. Fiji's other island groups, Kadavu and the Lau group among them, are not in this catalog, and the country's soft-coral dive sites and its shark dive are labelled as dives rather than as snorkel sites.

The ranked Fiji shortlist

In catalog rank order. Rank, taglines and “best for” notes are the catalog’s own; each destination page and guide goes deeper.

Fiji

The soft-coral islands

Soft coral · Island country

Soft coral, warm water and easy lagoons across an island country.

Fiji is several snorkeling areas in one country rather than a single site: the sheltered lagoons of the Mamanucas and Yasawas within reach of Nadi, the soft-coral reefs off Taveuni in the north, the protected water of Beqa Lagoon in the south, and fringing reef along Viti Levu's Coral Coast. Warm water and calm lagoon days make it one of the friendliest places in the Pacific to get in — with the honest caveat that the country's famous soft-coral dives and its shark feed are dives, not snorkels.

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Part of the regional shortlist

This country sits inside the Indo-Pacific — the wider grouping the ranked catalog uses.

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Other countries on the shortlist

Each country page groups the ranked catalog by country and states plainly what this catalog covers — and what it does not.

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