MEDIA RELEASE September 2007
Yasawa Island Resort is preparing to celebrate the first birthday of its magnificent new Baravi Spa, marking 12 months of sensual indulgences at Fiji’s first beachfront spa.
Opened last October on one of the South Pacific’s most remote and unspoilt islands, the Baravi
Spa draws its name from the Fijian word for beach and has been carefully constructed in a blend of traditional and contemporary styles, just metres from th e ocean’s edge on a sweep of pristine white sand.
Its signature massage, the Baravi Rhythm, is performed by two synchronised therapists, working in rhythm with the sound of the waves. Other therapies and treatments have been sourced from around the world and adapted with the Fijian sense of warmth and calm.
Yasawa Island Resort is one of the most exclusive retreats in Fiji, with just 18 luxury bungalows hidden among the palms on an island overlooked by the modern world. The resort was last year named “Most Excellent Romantic Hideaway” in the prestigious Condé Nast Johansens Awards in
New York, while this year it was chosen among two of “Fiji’s Best Hideaways” in the respected
Andrew Harper’s Hideaway Report .
Since its opening, the Baravi Spa has fast become the most popular asset at Yasawa, an island already known for its luxury, isolation, pristine waters and choice of 14 deserted beaches.
Housed beneath a thatched roof with a 180-degree view of the ocean, the spa offers a choice of four different massages and a range of facials, masks, body treatments and wraps, hot rock treatments, manicures and pedicures. Some treatments are designed especially for men.
Guests can opt to have massage treatments in the open air, fanned by the sea breezes on the s pa’s ocean-view deck. Or they can seclude themselves inside behind timber louvre doors where the air is tinged with incense and air-conditioned.
Resort owners Garth and Maggie Downey have sourced treatments and techniques from around the world, adapting them to local products and Fijian symbolism. Hot rock therapies use black volcanic pebbles to reflect the fiery rift that created Yasawa Island, while aromatic oils include an essence of the native sandalwood, sought by the earliest European traders.
Body wraps make use of banana leaves grown in the local Fijian villages, while salt scrubs include a dash of powdery sand from nearby Vula Walu (eight months), a beach said by locals to have sand so fine it takes eight months to comb from their hair.
Yasawa Island Resort and the Baravi Spa are reached by seaplane or 35-minute charter flight from
Nadi International Airport on the Fijian mainland. Rates at Yasawa include all meals, all nonalcoholic beverages and all activities except spa treatments, scuba diving and game fishing.
Yasawa Island Resort and Spa, Fiji – phone +679 672 2266, fax +679 672 4456, email reservations@yasawa.com.fj
or visit website www.yasawa.com
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