Economic activities include coconut and taro farming, fishing and selling of Fijian hand printed tapa.

Vatulele is a raised coral limestone paradise that lies to the south of Fiji's main island of Viti Levu.

Vatulele, often discussed but rarely visited, has figured prominently in Fijian legend because of its extraordinary red prawns.

A visit to any of the island's four villages will bring with it the unceasing and hypnotic sound of heavy wooden clubs striking repeatedly against something solid.

If you pluck up enough courage to venture inside the tin shed from whence the sound comes, you will see a sweating woman pounding strips of bark, flattening and softening the fibres sufficiently to make into the highest quality masi.