After the gorgeous sunrise cruise from Ovalau, we were off on another 5 hour bus trip, this time taking the Kings Road, which runs along the northern coast of Viti Levu. Our bus ride along the Queens Road on our first day in Fiji had seemed sort of rough at the time, but it certainly didn’t prepare us for this one. The first 56 kilometers of the Kings Road were unsealed (unpaved), narrow, twisty, and riddled with rickety, half disintegrated, one lane wooden bridges. Again, we reassured ourselves by repeating what had become our new Fijian transportation mantra, “They do this every day. We’ll be fine.” And then our bus driver took the wrong fork and had to reverse for about 400 meters. On an unsealed, narrow, twisty, one lane road. Had he done this before?
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