Tanoa Plaza Suva Nadi

... t buy much jewelry, but these black pearls are unique to Fiji and you can't get them anywhere else... so now I can look at them and remember my wonderful trip.<br><br>After that everyone had dinner at The Bounty next door to our hotel. It is a buffet style place. One last dinner as a group, and then it was off to the airport to fly home. We will fly out at 10:50pm today (Sunday) and land in Los Angeles at 1pm on Sunday... get to live sunday twice! :)<br>

... doing similar trips. <br>The Taveuua island was a first stop, the resort was called Coral View, appropriately named as the coral reefs surrounding the island were full over hundreds of species of fish, eels snakes blue star fish and so on. We spent a while snorkeling then before dinner embarked on a mountainous climb up to the top of a trek to see the sunset. With it being my first it was pretty amazing and there was a good crowd of us up there! Team midget raced ...

... of our time in Fiji. <br> <br><br>Again we stayed in a dorm, but it was a 14 bed instead of 84, and each bed came with its own mosquito net and fan which was fantastic! One of the best things about Octopus was the food. Breakfast was a great buffet, there was a menu of about 10 different meals which you would select from for lunch, and dinner was either a 3 course meal or a huge buffet of some sort. No wonder we wanted to stay! <br><br>The coral ...

... mit Bad (leider nur kaltes Wasser, bibber) und Veranda und Haengematte und Moskitonetz (gegen die ganzen Riesenkakerlaken und Spinnen, die immer dann aktiv wurden, wenn der Stromgenerator abgestellt wurde, also ab 23 Uhr). Der Strand war vielleicht 50m weg und das Grundstueck herrlich gross mit Unmengen an Palmen, deren Kokosnuesse wir uns pfluecken und oeffnen lassen konnten. Die Insel war so klein, dass es nur ein anderes Resort gab und keinen Shop. Also gab es 3x ...

... at equally aw some resorts and the whole group stays together which make it amazing, everyday is filled with laughter and good time also we now have a different guide and driver (kam and ??!). Kam was camp as they came which made the trip even funnier and the driver was cool, we did so many cool things it was amazing the one day we went tubing on a river that was clearly out of control, lashing down with rain and freezing cold it wasn't the safest activity I have ever ...

... comes the weepy part! Jo left us ahhhhhhhh!!! Man did I cry, I cried when we said goodbye, I cried when the locals sang their goodbye song on the echolalia, I cried when she got on the little boat, I cried when she got on the big boat and I cried even more when the big boat disappeared out of sight :-( We had an amazing week together but most of all we have both realised the value of friendship when your travelling and who your friends really are! Love you Jo ...

... quite benign and this makes a walk in the jungle a rather pleasant experience even for guys like us who have never gone jungle trekking before. As the hike was quite demanding and outside was hot and steamy, we really enjoyed taking a dive into the cold water of the waterfall and it was quite a feeling to float in the pool under the waterfall and the tree canopy high above. After half an hour of cooling down into the pool (and Juta taking his afternoon nap) we ...

... charts, GPS and depth sounder, we negotiated our way through the hazards of coral reefs and bommies, which could ground the boat, or damage her hull. We moored off an uninhabited island, with a beautiful white sandy beach. We took the dinghy ashore with snorkelling gear and explored a pleasant collection of coral bommies, home to vibrant reef fish. We explored the beach and rowed back to Island Prism as the sun sank beneath ...

We spent the weekend at Takalana Resort, about 1.5 hours drive north of Suva. Grant from work told us about this eco resort he had stayed at 2 months earlier, so I booked about 6 weeks ago to get in. After driving in pouring rain and potholes galore along the dirt road we finally made it there at about 4pm. My car looked like it had just been in 1 of those 4WD commercials. Luckily PK washed it for me on the Monday morning when we got back. The view is the 1st thing that hits ...

... very cool~! Just loved the whole thing. Great to spend time with such good friends - it doesn't matter how much time we spend apart - every time we get together, it feels like we have never been apart! Takalana is like Siobhan says... you feel like Nicole Kidman, away from the crowds, the world, enjoying good friends, good food and a fantastic pristine place. LOVED IT!