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Goodbye my australian flower, hello mamanuca!

Oceania » Fiji » Mamanuca Islands » Beachcomber June 13th 2013

Today I took a catamaran,(way bigger than I thought) to the Beachcomer island, part of the mamanuca island chain. I decided to take a day trip as I heard this how many people go about visiting the Beachcomber island. I had the time of my life, I took the seafari trip and got to visit the island where Cast Away the movie was filmed. I love that movie and the island was insanely beautiful. The people at the beachcomber resort greeted me with a 4 person band playing ukuleles ! We then visited a village and drank kava and hung out with the locals. The beaches are great, my room was very clean and the bar served decently priced drinks, not to mention th music. I cant wait to see what fiji has in store for ... read more

Day 102-NYE!!

Oceania » Fiji » Mamanuca Islands » Beachcomber January 5th 2011

Camilla Elin and Becky

Unfortunately the sun at breakfast didn't last and so we began our NYE drinking with our new friends from the US of A in the rain! Later that afternoon we boarded the ferry and waved goodbye to Mana and set off to the party island of Fiji - Beachcomber!!! The island has a capacity of just 250 people but tonight this tiny island was packed and we soon got into the festivities! Later in the night there was some excitement over some famous people who we had no recollection of whatsoever but we decided to get in on the action anyway and ended up sitting with the stars of Australian Rugby League!! We ended up spending most of the night with them in between visits to the spa on the beach, the cute little church (randomly!!) ... read more

Brief history of Fiji

Fiji became independent in 1970, after nearly a century as a British colony. Democratic rule was interrupted by two military coups in 1987, caused by concern over a government perceived as dominated by the Indian community (descendants of contract la...more history

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