Your adventure starts with a warm welcome from two of the park’s stars – the Pacific Boa and endemic iguanas. If you’re feeling brave, you can even handle them! After that, feel free to explore the animal enclosures, wander the aviaries and make a stop at the small marine centre to learn more about the captivating creatures that call Fiji’s coral reefs their home. If you time it right, you can also hand-feed the baby Hawksbill turtles in their seawater tank at 11am, 1pm or 3.30pm.
Once you’re done wandering the animal enclosures, follow the walkways up the hill on a forest walk, take a thrilling ride down the Splash Jungle Mountain waterslide or settle down by the kiddies splash pool for a swim and some lunch.
If your little ones love animals, they might find the park’s ‘Ranger of a Day’ program fascinating. Designed for kids aged 6-12yrs, the program allows them to shadow the park rangers in their day-to-day duties. Whether that’s conducting health checks on iguanas, hand-feeding baby animals or preparing food in the diet centre for tropical fish and soft coral, it’s a memory they’ll be talking about for days!
Behind-the-scenes, the park is an important breeding and rehabilitation centre for some of Fiji’s most endangered species including the Crested Iguana, Fiji Ground Frog and Fiji Peregrine Falcon.
The Park’s Monuriki Crested Iguana program has had some success hatching 15 babies in captivity which - with help from the National Trust of Fiji - they’ve released onto four islands in western Fiji. Injured turtles are rehabilitated, and hatchlings are raised to maturity before being released back into the wild at Turtle Island Resort in the Mamanuca islands. They also work with zoos around the world on breeding programs for creatures like the endangered Fijian Peregrine Falcon.
Outside its regular operations, Kula Wild Adventure Park doubles as a free-of-charge hands-on environmental education centre for Fijian school children. With no outside funding, the park runs this program purely on gate takings, so every visit here helps local kids learn about their natural heritage.