 | Goodbye Fiji
2009-04-26, Malolo Island, Fiji. By: nunns | | Seven days goes quickly and off we go to Los Angeles. It’s been nice in Fiji, a good break from the continuous travelling. The Fijians are absolutely wonderful people, their friendliness and good humo... |
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 | Crab Racing!
2009-04-22, Malolo Island, Fiji. By: nunns | | Although the resort we are staying at is very peaceful, they insist on organising ‘games/events’ every evening – by the third evening we’d learnt how to avoid them. However, before that we were…Crab R... |
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 | The Fiji Six...
2009-04-17, Malolo Island, Fiji. By: nunns | | More or less as soon as we arrive, we meet Brian and Jenny from the New Forest and Stefan and Corina from Austria but now living in Germany. We all seem get along like a house on fire (hope you under... |
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 | Ariving in Fiji
2009-04-16, Malolo Island, Fiji. By: nunns | | Arrival on Malolo Island in Fiji is by ferry or seaplane from the main International Airport. As we are too late to catch the last ferry at 4pm, we have arranged to go by seaplane. It can just about m... |
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| Village Trip
2009-04-08, Korovou Island, Fiji. By: sayer | | Today we got to visit a village and when we arrived we met the village cheif and got to drink the national fijian drink called cava!!! YUCK!!! It tastes like muddy water and leaves your tongue numb. T... |
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| Korovou Island
2009-04-07, Korovou Island, Fiji. By: sayer | | Today we left Kuata to go to Korovou Island about 1 hour north by boat. We were greeted by another fiji welcome song by men in skirts and we were given flowers to put on our head. It was a bit overcas... |
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| Swimming with sharks!!!
2009-04-06, Kuata Island, Fiji. By: sayer | | Today we got to swim with reef sharks which was pretty cool!!! Hayley was scared at first but learnt they only eat fish!!! It was an amazing experience and would definately do it again. After this we ... |
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| Kuata
2009-04-05, Kuata Island, Fiji. By: sayer | | Today we got the boat to a little island called Kuata. The views were amazing and all the people were really friendly. There was only 20 people stayed on this island while we were there. The beach was... |
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| Bula!!!
2009-04-05, Nadi, Fiji. By: sayer | | Today we left Sydney to Fly out to Fiji. The flight was 3 Hours long and when we got off the plane we were greeted by men wearing flowers on their heads and wearing skirts singing songs off the Guitar... |
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 | Last day in Fiji!
2009-04-04, Lautoka, Fiji. By: edculpin | | Today was my last day in Fiji before flying out to Oz. I felt pretty sad about leaving after 7 weeks, and i am also definately going to miss my friends there, but we have all promised to keep in touch... |
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 | Safari - Day 15-21
2009-03-28, Naviti Island, Fiji. By: edculpin | | we spent the third week of the safari out on the Yasawas island chain, off the west coast of Viti Levu. there are quite a few resorts on different islands as you progress up the chain, and we stopped ... |
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| Safari - Day 14
2009-03-27, Sigatoka, Fiji. By: edculpin | | Up at 5:30 for sea kayaking. it had to be so early so that we could catch the tide at the right time. We set off in the mangrove swamp and kayaked for about 40 minutes. we were in big 2 person sea kay... |
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 | Safari - Day 11-13
2009-03-24, Nakavika, Fiji. By: edculpin | | We spent the next three days up in the village of Nakavika with RiversFiji. It is high up in the interior of Fiji, surround my mountains and hills and in the middle of very dense rainforest. About 30 ... |
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 | Safari - Day 10
2009-03-23, Navunikambi, Fiji. By: edculpin | | Up at 6am for a long first day with the Adventure Tours company: RiversFiji. We met up in Pacific Harbour and boarded our off-road bus to head inland for some white water rafting!
All 5 of use squ... |
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| Safari - Day 9
2009-03-22, Labasa, Fiji. By: edculpin | | In the morning we got dressed up in Sulus and shirts and went to church. They are Methodist, and the whole service was in Fijian. There were some hymns and sermons and we were thanked, in english, for... |
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 | Safari - Day 8
2009-03-21, Labasa, Fiji. By: edculpin | | Drank grog until late last night - again.
this morning i played rugby and tag around the village with all the children in the pouring rain. then we climbed coconut trees to get some down, husked the... |
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| Safari - Day 7
2009-03-20, Labasa, Fiji. By: edculpin | | Today we mostly chilled out and went into Labasa a bit for some shopping.
The family we are staying with in Naqui are made up of:
-Api the father
-Dile the mother
-3 girls: Lo, Dirou and Sisi
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| Safari - Day 6
2009-03-19, Labasa, Fiji. By: edculpin | | Up early in Savusavu to get a bus up to Labasa, in the north-east of Vanua Levu. In typical Fijian fashion the bus never turned up so we hired a carrier, which is a pick-up truck with a canopy over th... |
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 | Safari - Day 5
2009-03-18, Savusavu, Fiji. By: edculpin | | Today we had a bike ride round savusavu and the surrounding area. we had hoped that it wouldnt be too hot for this but as we set off on our bikes from the guesthouse the sun was beating down!
we st... |
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 | Safari - Day 4
2009-03-17, Savusavu, Fiji. By: edculpin | | We arrived in Savusavu on Vanua Levu aboard the trusty ferry Suilven bright and early at 5am. the entire town consists of a line of shops along a main road, and some interestingly spelt signs. we mana... |
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 | Safari - Day 3
2009-03-16, Suva City, Fiji. By: edculpin | | Today we were getting the overnight ferry from Viti Levu, the main island, to Vanua Levu, the second biggest island. the ferry left the capital city Suva in the early afternoon so we spent the morning... |
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 | Safari - Day 2
2009-03-15, Sigatoka, Fiji. By: edculpin | | Today we had a bit of a drive along The Queen's Highway through Sigatoka to Pacific Harbour. There we got a van up into the hills to have a go at the South Pacific's only zip wire course, ZipFiji.
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| Safari - Day 1
2009-03-14, Nadi, Fiji. By: edculpin | | I was up at various points in the night to say goodbye to people leaving to catch their flights home, and lots of kava the night before, so being up at 7am wasnt very fun! Anyway we managed to roll ou... |
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| Fiji Safari Itinerary
2009-03-13, All Over Fiji, Fiji. By: edculpin | | This is the itinerary for my three-week safari around Fiji. If you want to know where any of the places around out of the 106 inhabited islands that make up Fiji, type the place name in on google maps... |
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 | Last day in Lautoka
2009-03-13, Lautoka, Fiji. By: edculpin | | Bula
Today is my last day in Lautoka before i head off on the 3 week safari around fiji. during that time i probably wont be able to do much with my blog but i will try and put up some photos if i ... |
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 | Kava Ceremony
2009-03-06, Lautoka, Fiji. By: edculpin | | Bula!
Check out some pictures of our kava ceremony on friday night.
Kava is an ancient crop of the west pacific. it has different names on different islands, like 'awa' hawaii, 'ava' samoa, and ... |
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| Long Weekend
2009-03-10, Lautoka, Fiji. By: edculpin | | Bula
This week we had a three-day weekend due to the prophet Mohammed's birthday on the Monday. We had to stay in Lautoka because of a charity cricket match we were playing in on Sunday, so we orga... |
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| Learn some Fijian!!
2009-03-03, Lautoka, Fiji. By: edculpin | | Bula!
Although English is a national language in Fiji, and all lessons at school are taught in english, the fijian language is still spoken a lot.
unlike gaelic, a language on the decline, where onl... |
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| Weekend at Mango Bay
2009-03-02, Namatakula, Fiji. By: edculpin | | Bula
This weekend we all went to mango bay, a small resort on the very south coast of the main island of fiji, viti levu. on friday evening we all piled into a minivan and drove for about three hou... |
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