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Background: 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 laborers brought to the islands by the British in the 19th century). A 1990 constitution favored native Melanesian control of Fiji, but led to heavy Indian emigration; the population loss resulted in economic difficulties, but ensured that Melanesians became the majority. Amendments enacted in 1997 made the constitution more equitable. Free and peaceful elections in 1999 resulted in a government led by an Indo-Fijian, but a coup in May 2000 ushered in a prolonged period of political turmoil. Parliamentary elections held in August 2001 provided Fiji with a democratically elected government and gave a mandate to the government of Prime Minister Laisenia QARASE.

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By Jonny Lees
July 29th 2008

Fiji- Cruising the Yasawa Islands.

Oceania » Fiji » Yasawa Islands

Ross jumping

After a week on beaches we were looking forward to a cruise around the Yasawa Islands. The cruise was called the Wanna Taki Cruise and was renown for being a party boat. We were greeted by song, dance and a refreshing cocktails. The boat was impressive; top deck was for sunbathing, diving off,drinking and eating whilst the bottom deck had TV facilities and our beds for the next 2 nights. We met up with some English guys and American girls from previous Islands and decided to take a trip snorkelling around the nearby reef. There was supposed to be giant manta [View Full Entry]

By Rich and Sal
July 29th 2008

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Oceania » Fiji » Mamanuca Islands » Malolo Island

Nadi marina
On the way to funky fish

After seven weeks of cold and rain in New Zealand, it was amazing to touch down in Fiji and finally see some sunshine! We spent our first night in a hostel on the mainland, where we got to spend the evening eating and having a few drinks around the pool. Was lovely and relaxing. The next morning we were up early to get our ferry connection out to the malolo islands where we were planning on spending the week. We were picked up by a man in a little minibus, and driven along a stretch of beach to the marina (not [View Full Entry]

By traceyp
July 28th 2008

Island hopping

Oceania » Fiji » Viti Levu

World's 7th best beach!

July has been a busy month! As soon as I got back from Nauru, I met up with some friends visiting from Australia. First stop was Natadola Beach for the day. According to the sign on the Queens Rd, its the 7th most beautiful beach in the world. Stocked up with roti parcels and a pineapple, we had a great day just lying by the beach, swimming in the blue water and catching up on all our gossip. The next day we headed to Nananu-i-ra - an island just off the coast of Viti Levu near Rakiraki. The landscape from Nadi [View Full Entry]

By keziajukes
July 28th 2008

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Oceania » Fiji » Suva

Hello Well this is a slightly odd update, as having returned to England for a couple of months, I am now in Fiji!!!! I'm doing a GirlGuiding project and working really hard. We flew last weekend as a group of four from Heathrow. It took 11 hours to get to LA Airport and and we went striaght onto our next flight which took 10 1/2 hours to get tO Nadi, Fiji. We are a really good team and am getting on really well. We went to a fundraising event for the Fijian GirlGuides at the British High commissioner's house which was [View Full Entry]

By Marc 85
July 27th 2008

Sharks!

Oceania » Fiji » Nadi

Hi again all, I'm currently in Nadi, waiting for my flight tonight. I take off at 22:00 on the 27th and land at 13:15 on the same day! It's going to be a long day.. Anyhow, back to what I've been upto: Whilst on Waya Lai Lai I went on a hand fishing trip with some people I met, I didn't catch anything but most the others did - there were some really good size fish coming out too! Bounty island is quite different from the other 2 I visited, you can walk around the whole island in about 10 minutes [View Full Entry]

By Welsh Wanderers
July 24th 2008

The Tide is High

Oceania » Fiji » Yasawa Islands

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So we had spent over 2 weeks investigating the main island of Fiji, Vitu Levu, but we had yet to experience that real idyllic tropical south pacific island, and apparently the Manamanucas and Yasawas fitted the description. Try to say that, at any time, it is even more difficult after a couple drinks. The next task was to actually organise and book it, which should have been easy as we were now seasoned travellers and so far Fiji had been pretty easy and cheap to get around, but we came across the same problems we had in Borneo. Independent travel to [View Full Entry]

By Kyrp the Wirp
July 24th 2008

Working in Fiji Time

Oceania » Fiji » Yasawa Islands

Although it seems to have flown, I'm now on my last day in Fiji :( so I thought it was probably blog time! I got to Nadi at Stupid O'Clock in the morning, with someone having stolen a whole day from me en route - we left on Monday, and landed on Wednesday due to crossing the dateline during the ten hour flight! I had one day and night at the Aquarius Pacific in Nadi, a beautiful (which, believe me, is a word I will be using a lot in this blog) Hostel on the beach. The following day, the coach [View Full Entry]

By Caitlin Clunie OConnor
July 21st 2008

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Oceania » Fiji » Nadi

spent the last two weeks on paradise island and cant say much about it except it was amazing and teh snorkling was amazing and the tan is back with a vengance. back two weeks wednesday which is a highly scary prospect but there are several things i am lookign forward too: cheese wardrobe/drawers not having smelly dirty clothes not washing my knickers in the shower mums fish pie mums cooking in general wine cider showering in a nice bathroom my bed my pillows my house trifle chocolate cake several ice cream flavours nice clothes nice shoes cheese (again) samoa in two [View Full Entry]

By Welsh Wanderers
July 19th 2008

Bhangra Knights

Oceania » Fiji » Viti Levu » Natadola Beach

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I was relieved to be leaving Chong’s Place. Stu had been kind in his description. It was a state, there was clearly a lack of female presence for some time, I don’t think the house had been cleaned for 2 years, and there was a very dark atmosphere about it - and I won’t even mention the kitchen! I am happy to experience basic living and have embraced it many times on this journey so far, but this was just plain dirty and unkempt. So we were off to find a more traditional form of accommodation, the problem being that Fiji [View Full Entry]

By Marc 85
July 18th 2008

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Oceania » Fiji » Yasawa Islands » Naviti Island

Hi all, I'm on a very slow and expensive connection in the Fiji Yasawa islands so this can only be a quick message. Fiji has been great so far - although its been a bit difficult going from doing things constantly for 5 1/2 months to doing very little! The resorts i've been to out here are Korovu and Waya Lai Lai and i'm heading to Bounty island tomorrow (famous for Celebrity love island), before heading down to Pacific harbour on the main island for a shark dive! I pretty much got offered a job out here from a guy back [View Full Entry]

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