📸 Lautoka Unfiltered: A Photo Diary of Fiji’s Sugar City 🇫🇯

🌞 Morning: Market Magic • 6:30AM at Lautoka Market: Fishermen unloading pre-dawn catches (tuna still flipping!) 🐟 Rainbow stalls of dragon fruit, cassava, and kava roots 🌈 Photo tip: Capture the "coconut pyramid" stacks 🥥 • Breakfast Stop: $2 FJD "lovo buns" (steamed bread filled with spiced beef) 🥯 Aunty Mere’s stall: Only place with fresh sugarcane juice 🎋 🏙️ Midday: Urban Wander • Colonial Throwbacks: Lautoka Sugar Mill (1903) – Rusty machinery + caramelized air 🏭 Sacred Heart Church: Peek inside for stained-glass palm trees 🌴 • Street Scenes: Taxi stand chaos: Drivers playing ukulele between fares 🎶 Schoolkids in uniform buying $1 FJD ice pops 🍡 🌇 Sunset: Hidden Corners • Vuda Point: Abandoned canoe hulls turned into art installations 🛶 Local secret: Climb the lighthouse ruins for panoramic views 🔭 #LautokaLens #RealFiji #SugarAndSpice