Rainbow Lodge Fiji Rakiraki

... Cairns was really hard, very sad to leave after my 3 weeks of really loving Cairns in my grubby hostel which i soon began to love! However i was off to Fiji so i was slightly loving that!<br><br>Arrived in Fiji and as soon as i walked off the plane the heat just hit me even though it was raining, which i was not happy about as i was thinking 'typical'. I got my free shuttle bus to my hostel which was good and it was lovely met some girls there who i hung out with ...

... far less as a whole than everywhere else we had been. This was a combination of not enjoying the camper so much, the crash, not meeting anyone and it being so damn cold! I would like to go back to New Zealand one day, in the summer and probably not in a camper. It did have it's moments however, and I hope I haven't portrayed it as being terrible, because it really was still good, everything is comparative, and it had the unfortune of coming after probably my ...

... Fiji, I would prefer different sites. AND: our Finnish friends are still here for a week: time enough to go to whatever dive site. So we go to different spots. I like the dives better than yesterday in fact. Interval again on Vanua Levi, the second largest island of Fiji. Second dive, we are dropped off at the wrong place and the current is terrible. We have to crawl over the bottom of the sea to get over the wall. We lost our instructor ...

... is great, but the smog and the occasional bug in LA is preferred, at least for now. Words from Brandt: So before the beetle landed on Cathy, I had a run in with nature myself. So there we were, enjoying a lovely breakfast with the beautiful scenery of Fiji behind me (and in front of Cathy), when I felt something fall onto my back. I knew that it had fallen from above me, and thought it was a gecko (as I had seen previously, they were not the ...

... travellers who also seemed aware of the deficiencies of the place and the fact that the rest of our group were a bit of an odd bunch. One was a middle-aged Australian who, while very friendly, turned slightly creepy after his 1/2 litre of vodka, whuile the other was a chubby French-Canadian with a good sense of humour and an amusing inability to say 'Worcestershire.' We passed most of the evening chatting, interrupted occasionally by being required to play various club 18 ...

... I was on the bow. The group sped joyfully through the water beneath me, keeping pace with Prism with ease. They jumped, crossed our bow, and were gone. We saw them behind us, playful and exuberant, somersaulting their entire bodies out of the water. We tacked and passed back through the pod; they returned to join in the game, and this time I was fast enough with my camera to get photos of them in waters such a bright blue they could come from a child's paint box. Nothing shows the speed ...

... all the kids who, let's not forget to mention weighed, oh, at least 80lbs. less than I, and so I jumped. I jumped into the water, crossed my legs beneath me, and BAM! I crushed the top of my left foot on that same damn rock from which I just plunged. Think of that rock as an iceberg. Oops. Nerves are sending messages as fast as they can to my small small brain. Message after message of PAIN. I breach the surface and ...

... tlema, et külapiirkonnad olid päris ilusad - oli tunda nö. maastikuarhitekti kätt, külateed olid ääristatud tõrvikutega ning ka kohalike majad olid täitsa armsad. Nägime üleni valgetes koolivormides lapsi kodu poole vantsimas ning mehi jalgpalli tagumas. Elanikud tundusid olevat õnnelikud ja rahul oma elamisega. Tihedama metsaga piirkondades oli näha hiljuti maad laastanud orkaani purustuse jälgi - bambusesalud olid suisa järjest maha niidetud ning segi murtud. Paar korda ...

We past a few towns along the way and saw everything from cows tied up along side the road to goats crossing the streets. There were a few watermelon stands and women selling brooms and plants in front of their houses. Everyone looked curiously into our taxi as we drove by yelling out "Bula". The scenery reminded us a bit of New Zealand. There were quite a few hills minus the sheep! Everyone had flower bushes/trees in ...

... muss allerdings sagen, das mir durch das viele Tauchen und Schnorcheln ein Grossteil meiner Furcht vor der ungewissen Tiefe genommen wurde. Den Tauchkurs habe ich tatsaechlich bestanden und bin jetzt "PADI international open water diver". Das Riffleben vor Fiji war wie im Fersehen, viele bunte Fische, Seeschnecken und -sterne, Schwaemme, Anemonen und Korallen unterschiedlichster Textur und Farbe. <br><br>Das eindrucksvollste Panorama gab es allerdings bei einer ...