Blogs from Mana Island, Mamanuca Islands, Fiji, Oceania - page 2

On peut vous resumer Fiji en un seul mot : Bula! Ils utilisent ce mot pour dire bonjour, au revoir, merci, SVP, bref pour presque tout... ils ont meme des chansons ou ils disent sans arret «bula » avec different tons. On suspecte que ce mot est seulement pour les touristes car on a vu tres peu de fidjiens se dire bula entre eux... Reste qu’on a quand meme embarques dans le jeu et on utilisait genereusement le mot bula. Nous avions decides d’echapper au stress de Sydney et d’aller passer 9 jours a Fiji. Notre voyage etait divise en 2 parties : premier 4 jours dans les magnifique iles Mamanuca, dans un resort a faire la crepe au soleil. Puis les 5 jours suivant nous partons vagabonder avec nos sacs a dos dans l’ile principale ... read more

Wowzas! What a great time I had in Fiji. I'm now in Byron Bay, Australia, but wanted to send over some updates. Internet was a little hard to come by, or a fast connection anyway, so I'll do my best to rehash the past for ya. It's been a whirlwind of fun. Day 1 (5/26): We travel about 22 hours from Austin, TX and arrive in Mana about 9 or 10am. Immediately we relax with a beer. Caitlin relaxes at our hostel's beachside picnic tables and I played volleyball. Immediately everyone is so welcoming and friendly. I met a super nice German, Ben and an English girl, Rebecca. She introduces me to a few of her other friends and the train of friend meeting continues. Caitlin heads to be early and I stay up and watch ... read more

6th APRIL 2009 - SNORKELLING, GOODBYE ALABAMA & DOG CHASE!! I slept well and felt fine when I woke at 7am. I stayed in bed until around 7.40 and then strolled across to the hall for breakfast. Usual table and 1st in line...no messing!! Breakfast was good again but not for my waistline....pancakes, syrup, bananas, bread and juice! Carb overload!! Pretty much all of us made breakfast except Theresa. Nat had a wake up call from a mouse in our room...nice!! Everyone knackered though as most didn't go to bed until around 3am unlike myself who was tucked up at 1am. Such a different story from the first night there!! Following breakfast I took a pew on the beach with Orla and eventually everyone else came and joined us too. Our winning quiz team claimed our ... read more

5/5/09 = The 5 island hop and a church visit. Got up at the same old early time. There’s no sleeping in at Mana…electricity cuts off at 6am (is only on from 6pm to 6am each day), which means fan cuts off, which in turn brings instant heat that only takes a couple of minutes to smother you and wake you up. Did doze for a little while afterwards, but then got up and got ready for 8am breakfast. Woke Allan and Kirtsy on way and all sat together for food, as usual. First breakfast on Mana so far - having missed it yesterday due to a hangover - and wow...what a breakfast. It was actual, normal food. Pancakes...banana...syrup...bread...even nice little muffin types cakes. Wow. Piled plate up and ate until felt like belly was going ... read more

4/4/09 = A lazy day with Fijian dancing Wasn’t a good night’s sleep, but never is after drinking! Poor Deb was sick all night and I rolled over feeling not too hot! Why do we drink? Definitely couldn’t face breakfast…especially not a Mana style breakfast…so rolled over to try the sleep cures all problems trick. Re-opened eyes at 10am. Still feeling positively dodgy, but not sick…yeh! Deb on other hand = really not good. Had been sick all night and in some v.unfortunate places…her poor handbag took the brunt of it…oops. She definitely wasn’t going anywhere, but me belly so empty, had no choice but to move. Crawled out of bed, scraped clothes on and dragged myself off to main hall to see how everyone else was doing. Nearly everybody was already up and they all ... read more