Viti Levu
Travel Blogs from Viti Levu, Fiji
Seaspray Day Sailing Adventure
... stopped completely for five minutes just after she'd put shampoo in her hair. The island was much quieter tonight because the University of Fiji students had all left. Also it was Sunday, which is a day of rest for the staff (well compared to the rest ...
Problems and plans
... night (16 bed dorm), thats about 3GBP! We met some locals in town and spent the afternoon drinking Kava (national drink) and Fiji bitter (it's great). We were considering renting a boat for a month from them to travel the Yasawa islands but after a ...
I come from a land down under...
Hi everyone! Sorry its been a while since we've written, we've literally been going nonstop for the last month. We took a trip to Fraser Island which was immense, we stayed there overnight and had the best trip leader called Karl who took us into the ...
Bula Scootering
Bula Scootering Our last full day in Fiji and we didn't feel like taking a tour anywhere so thought we would get a couple of scooters and just ride the road, stopping at beaches when we felt ...
S-s-s-Suva
... hostel. The museum was alright, if a little dull. Some parts of it were fairly interesting to read about, with the history of Fiji. From here, we walked back into the town. Yesterday I was thinking that this place was really unfriendly and I didn't really ...
Nadi
What a bollocks it was to get out of Auckland!!!!! If something could go wrong it did. We all had to pay excess baggage at the airport... hello, 1.5 kilos overweight meant a 30 dollar charge. 1.5 bloody kilos!!!!!!!!!!! Then there was the airport ...
Fiji Best and Worst Bits
Fiji I decided to go home via Fiji as I had recently heard a lot of friend's going through there and recommending it. Also, one of my friend’s was living out there and was keen to meet up. My week there was, as the whole year had been, amazing! It ...
Fiji Islands
... end to our lengthy trip overseas. Keith especially enjoys snorkeling among the coral reefs teeming with colorful tropical fish. A highlight is our visit to the famous Blue Lagoon. We also visit a traditional Fiji village to see how the native Fijians ...
FIJI TIME!!!
16th July - Went to the airport at a ridiculous time in the morning! Flew. Arrived in Nadi. Went to our hostel - Nadi Bay Resort. Met Amanda (a Canadian friend who we met in Australia). Met Jack a nice man in our dorm. South Sea Island - Got picked up ...
The Fiji's
... would be possible to walk around the entire island in 5 minutes. On the Fiji mainland, however, we were staying on Viti Levu, the largest of Fiji's islands.....and what people would really consider to be Fiji. So after arriving we spent a large part of ...
Sable brûlant / Scorching sand
... 5 jours perdus à Fiji Scorching sand: 5 lost days in Fiji ---------- J'avais initialement prévu deux étapes après Uluru: d'abord Fiji, parce que c'est simple d'y aller à partir de l'Australie et que je doute de retourner dans ce coin du monde sous ...
Paradise!!!
hi!!! first time we've had internet and we have no signal out here! we are having an AMAZING time! so so beautiful! we had one night on the 'party island' where we met a couple people and it was really busy and loud and drunk that night but we had just ...
BULA!
... for about a week and had a ball. I went on the "Fiji Experience' which is basically a tour around the main island of Viti Levu. Meet up with 15 other travelers, all mainly from England and when to some seriously remote / poor places which all have their ...
It gets more primitive!
Hmmm things are definately becoming more primitive as we head away from the mainland - this island has no electricity except in kitchen so its torches or candlenight at night, the toilets don't have doors that shut and the showers are just a tap! Plus ...
Bye bye fiji
... and rolled along to the arrivals part of the airport to get my pickup to my hostel for my last nite in the small island of fiji. soooo, i waited and waited but no pick-up came, staff told me it was coming and even for fiji time this was taking forever ...
Fiji time.....
... up with my travelpod and update everyone on what i've been up too, but it seems everything here runs on what the locals call 'fiji time' and that's very slow....... slower than a tortoise with a broken leg it would seem, the internet is dial up and i've ...
The Outrigger on the Lagoon
This is what the hotel looks like in the daylight. Beautiful gardens and pool. Very close to the beach (our room looks out onto it). Comfortable and clean room as you would expect from a five star hotel. However, it is a bit pricey (as you ...
Last few days in Fiji
... I decided to take a few days at the beach to relax, catch up with the blog and enjoy the last moment of beautiful Fiji such as the sand, sea and sun! I went to the Beachouse for 2 nights, a backpacker resort which I came in February for the weekend with ...
Nadi - It starts
Well this is the first day here after Tyler and I had a nice 16 hours of sleep. Yes you heard me right we slept for about 16 hours. We started off our first day after about 20 hours of more of flying pretty tired. We arrived at about 5 a.m. and got ...
Yoghurt tasting
The class tried some yoghurt with muesli as it was part of the unit topic linking to dairy product and food in switzerland. The students were afraid by the sight of it as they have never seen anything like that before. Once I have gave them the bowl and ...
Risto muljed Mamanuca sukeldumisest
Sukeldumine 2. päeva hommikul tuli suht spontaanselt, vähemalt Annele J. Ärkasin mingi seitsme paiku ja tekkis mõtesiin pole veel sukeldutud ning kuulu järgi pidid olema siin ägedad korallid. Sammusingi sukeldumiskeskusesse, kus ühe vanaga sai ...
Nadi
After spending a few days on Nananu-i-Ra, we decided to come back to Nadi and visit around town. After settling into our hotel room, we decided to take a taxi into city centre. The hotel was pretty quick to offer us a ride for $5.00 but we accepted ...
Nadi, Fiji
Flight Info: Departure: 05/06/07 08:00 Auckland, New Zealand Arrival: 05/06/07 11:05 Nadi, Fiji Flight Number: QF3843 Miles: 1341 Duration: 3hrs ...
Fiji
... no idea of what time or date or time zone I exist in and I have no idea where the 4th of August went. Coming to Fiji from L.A. you cross the international date line. We left L.A. on the 3rd of August but actually reached Fiji on the 5th. Stan had ...
The last post from Fiji
... to hang spoons from my nose and cheeks. We also validated our past three months in the country by answering every Fiji general knowledge question correctly. The grand prize for our efforts was an afternoon on a private beach with a champagne picnic! It's ...
A Little Like Paradise
Fiji was our last stop before heading home. It is hard to believe that it was once the home of cannibals. For us, it was meant to be a place of sun and rest and just enjoying the beauty of the island. We stayed at a great hotel with beautiful ...
Captain Cook's Footsteps - Part 2
... . You have to try it if you ever get to Beachouse! We can't finish without mentioning that, while in Fiji, we've also made acquaintance with Malcolm and Janet, a retired Scottish couple living in France and now traveling around the ...
First day in Fiji - Nadi
Ok friends this is it - we finally arrived in Fiji... We flew with Air Pacific (Fijian Airline) and when we got at Brisbane Airport to check in there was a massive line even beyond the dedicated isles. The reason for this was that the plane was ...
Bula from Fiji!!
... because looking back it seems like we did so much but at the time I felt guilty for just lying around and doing nothing. Fiji is simply paradise and I can't wait to go back again. Incidently, I should take this moment to issue apologies to Air ...
Fiji Islands
... speaking to fellow travellers we soon made a decision. We hired a car and took a 4 day trip around the mainland - Viti Levu. The island is a mountainous, lush, tropical landscape of rivers, waterfalls and abundant exotic fruit ...
