Blogs from Suva, Fiji, Oceania - page 6

As most of you were aware, yes I did loose my suitcase, yes I did spend three days wearing the same pants, jeans and stinky blue top and yes my first three days did suck. I arrived in Nadi on the Thursday and left on the Friday to a beautiful resort south of the main land called Mango Bay Resort. Although a very young place, my sanity has resumed along with my backpack and I am now off to discover the rest of the mainland. We went on a sunset cruise yesterday, the water looked so calm, clear and warm that I decided to swim back to shore in the dusky afternoon sun. However as I was the insigator of this activity, and the first person to dive off the boat I did actually misjudge the ... read more

We spent a few days in Suva, Fiji's capital. After a frustrating first day, where we spent the whole time walking back and forth to the local jetty, organising our forthcoming jounrey to Kadavu Island, we spent a much more relaxing second day enjoying the local attractions. We visited the Fiji museum, where we learnt about everything from Cannabilism to Colonisation. Can you believe that canabilism was only wiped out 130 years ago in Fiji! If you're a Fijian, there's a good chance your great Grandma enjoyed knawing on human legs...! From the museum we wandered to the (dissolved, due to the Coup) Fijian parliament, along the way seeing a very hot looking guard outside the government buildings. When we got to the parliament, we sweet-talked the secuirty guards into letting us into the compound in ... read more

Day 26 - February 10, 2007, Saturday, Suva, Fiji (We skipped a day—jumping 23 hours ahead last night!) Time: 7:30 am Saturday (1:30 pm Friday CST) Latitude: 18 degrees 08.12 minutes S Longitude: 178 degrees 25.37 minutes W Speed: 0 knots - At Anchor Distance traveled from FLL: 9325 nautical miles Weather: 85 degrees / 75% humidity, Partly cloudy/sunny Bula! Bula! (Hello! Hello!) We were greeted with this throughout our day in friendly Suva, Fiji today! Fiji’s 322 islands are spread across the Koro Sea in a giant U shape. We visited Suva the capital and largest city of the Fiji Islands located in Rewa Province on the southeastern coast of Viti Levu Island near the mouth of the Rewa River. Suva is a very ethnically diverse city, with about equal numbers of Indians and indigenous ... read more

Oh my god ...the flight here is a killer felt like shite as i did not sleep on flight and didn't really sleep the night before we left but hey we are here now. The weather is really hot. We have booked to go to robinson crusoe island 2moro for 3 nights then we are thinking of heading to the yasawa islands for a few nights. we will see what happens we are as free as birds! On our first day here we were happily sitting round the pool and this nut job was running around speaking to someone who was not there ...!! and we thought shit what have we done but since then nothing to exciting has happend its just been very chilled and relaxing. Yesterday we went to a beautiful deserted beach it ... read more

Bula family and friends, After much earbashing and abusive texts from alllllllllll of you I have finally set up an account with your beloved travelblog........ so here it is....not sure what to write.......... At the moment I am looking out of my office window at Suva Harbour. I look straight out to sea and can see the reef break - no surfers today - the weather is quite stormy and im not wearing my glasses (typical) hmmmm so maybe they are there but i just cant see them..... Had a great weekend - went into town without a hangover!!! surprised - i was!!! shopped at the markets (((i cant wait to take you guys there - the spices and fresh produce is amazing! when grandma was here i took her there and she loved it, we ... read more