Blogs from Fiji, Oceania - page 131

Just a quick one to say I've had an amazing week- Diving with sharks, laying on the beach and meeting fun people while being cared for by Tiki (the receptionist). I'm heading down to the coral coast now with 4 others. I'll show you photos and tell you all about Mana and the coral coast next week as the bus leaves soon. Love to all T... read more

One of my weekend trips away recently was to Takalana, which is about 2.5 hours north of Suva. We had two car loads of people, the unfortunate group were in front in the rickity old van, the lucky ones (including me!) were in a brand new 4-wheel drive....aahh, I do like to travel in style. And the 4-wheel drive was necessary, from about half way the tar road ends and the mud and gravel roads take over. Our destination was a small backpackers place up on a hill overlooking a black sand beach. It’s rather unusual, it feels like sand except it’s really dark (but not muddy). After we’d arrived and had lunch in the sun, followed by a nap on the ground, we followed the local children to a water fall. The walk wasn’t very ... read more

I'm gonna slow it right down, the days moving just too fast for me... Bula my friends, We arrived in Nadi, Fiji on 14th August and quickly sorted out a Youth Hostel, halfway beween the airport and Nadi town. Our first two days were spent trying to organise what we'd be doing for the next 3 weeks which involved getting the bus from our hostel into Nadi. Nadi is relatively small, containing a lot of Souvenir Shops and a couple of Supermarkets. It felt like we were back in Thailand because we couldn't be left in peace to walk for 10 seconds without being hassled by some locals trying to chat to us. They'd start off all nicey nice asking where we were from and coming out with all this spiel how they love Englnd, the ... read more

hallo ihr lieben........haben uns lange nicht gemeldet........waren die erste zeit auf malola island und haben uns die sonne auf den pelz scheinen lassen. uns geht es soweit bombe ....man hat zwar eher das gefuehl , dass man in little india ist aber sonst alles tuti....... auf fiji gibt es naehmlich 50% fijianer und 50% inder....... und die haben es faust-dick hinter den ohren.... was armut und kriminalitaet an geht ....oh,oh,oh....... ist eben ein drittes welt land und das sollte man nicht vergessen. es ist schon komisch, wenn man das erstemal in seinem leben das gefuehl hat, als weise in der minderheit zu sein......was aber die natur angeht einfach toll. mein herz haengt zwar noch immer in neuseeland fest aber dieses blaue wasser und diese teils unberuehrte natur ist fantastisch....... melden uns spaeter nochmal und versuchen mal ... read more

As we got off the plane in Fiji the warm air wafted over us. “Bula!” smiled an airport official as we walked through to the arrivals lounge. We went through the usual procedures and came out to pick up our ride to the resort. Everyone smiled as we came through the gates and asked where we were staying. Being a hardened traveller I was used to being jumped on by unhelpful taxi drivers and tried my best to ignore them but actually they were genuinely trying to help as they pointed Lins in the right direction to catch our ride. The minibus took us out of the airport and into the town of Nadi (pronounced Nandi) where the streets were dusty and very busy. We carried on to the outskirts of the town until the road ... read more