Tanoa International Hotel Nadi

... on the beach for a while before turning in for bed.

The next morning, I went to Sawailau Caves with a few of the boys from the resorts. (The girls just wanted to fry in the sun...) After a short boat trip, we arrived at the caves & entered the first cavern. After swimming around for a while, our guide had us dive under the water to swim into the second cavern, which had no daylight entering so was pitch black. Thankfully our guide had a torch so we swam through there for ...

... coladas i've had in my life!!! i decided to try the reef fish selection since i was eager to try some of the local seafood and when the lady said that it was mahi mahi i was sold. with my first bite i was in heaven! like the colada, the mahi was some of the best i've tasted anywhere.

satisfied with a great meal and a some fun conversation i headed off to bed as i had an early start the next morning. i was catching the ferry to the Yasawa Islands!

... food for lunch we were back on the bus and headed south to Natadola beach for lunch. Along our way we saw several cows and horses tied to trees or poles along the roadside. Natadola beach is a beautiful beach, it's in a nice quiet area with a resort and very peaceful, the perfect start to our Feejee Experience! We had our lunch here and people who weren't sunbathing played football.

Our first cultural experience in Fiji was at Malomalo Village, where our guide explained ...

... beers, an attempted game of scrabble and a chat to a Dutch guy we decided to go to the bar in the hostel next door, Smuggler's Cove. It was a bit fancier than ours and much more lively. We got chatting to an English couple, Barney and Hannah and spent the rest of the evening with them. The next day we slept late yet again, probably due to the fact that we hadn't slept much while we were in Melbourne. We had some lunch in Smuggler's and bumped into Barney and ...

... before drinking the whole thing down in one. Oddly only me and two other emmets (tourists for the non Cornish amongst you) sat down with the locals to take part in the kava drinking which really made me feel like I was part of something special and unequivocally Fijian. So as we departed for Korovou I contented myself on the fair weather and general jovial nature of the previous two days events.....but then it all went wrong. To be fair it ...

... halua tehdä mitään isompia johtopäätöksiä, koska aikaa tarvitsisi paljon enemmän. Jotenkin vaikuttaa, että tämä on hiukan samanlainen mesta kuin Tonga ja täällä on aivan uskomattoman hienoja paikkoja, mutta sitten myös aivan hirveitä lääviä. Pitää vaan tietää minne mennä. Vaatii ehdottomasti vielä uuden visiitin...

Minun mielestä oli tosi kiva välistoppi keskellä Tyyntämerta ja hyvillä mielillä jatketaan tästä nyt huomenna kohti Uutta-Seelantia...

BULA!

... and only three in from the sea. Although I had previous plans of doing tours to explore the rest of the island, the idyllic conditions at the resort and the thought of travelling along that road again, convinced us to just stay put and chill out. We were in the middle of nowhere and there was no other place to go locally. So we ate good food, drank a little wine and beer, did a bit of swimming, paddled around in a kayak ...

... nicht alleine so. Vielleicht wird mir die Arbeit aber auch einfach nur langweilig. Naja, hoffentlich nur mal wieder eine meiner Phasen. Freue mich jetzt wieder aufs Wochenende! Ok, ich hab jetzt keine Lust mehr zu schreiben, ich glaub das war auch genug. Falls mir noch was super wichtiges einfaellt, schreib ichs einfach in naechsten Eintrag. Hoffe es ist nicht allzu kalt bei euch! In Sydney aendert sich das Wetter staeendig.... Ganz liebe Gruesse von eurer braungewordenen Lisa