The Crow's Nest Sigatoka

... games again! Go figure!<br><br>The Fijians are very humble and soft spoken people, they are always smiling and always laughing. Watching the men perform their dances was not a bad sight! They are very muscular and their chocolate brown skin glistening with coconut oil......<br><br>The first night, they had a welcome ceremony with Kava, which is a root that they grind to a powder and add water. It tasted horrible and it makes your mouth ...

... past and stopped to check we were all ok. To demonstrate how slippy it was, two girls kindly fell over on the short walk over to the crash site. The driver checked we were all ok, while the passengers took some pictures, but claimed it would be quicker for us to hitch to the nearest hotel to make the necessary phonecalls in the opposite direction to the one he was travelling, as there was no phone signal for 2 hours either side of us.<br>It was decided, as the ...

... are originally from Kinawley/Killesher. Very strange and random to meet someone you know on an island in Fiji. It was nice though to share a few beers with him and his girlfriend Caoimhe last night and we had a few rounds of cards with them this morning before we left! Photos don't seem to be happening for some reason so u will have to wait to see sunny Fiji...! Off to New Zealand in the morning where our campervan awaits us!! Cant wait.....

... toilet, and the other has the indoor shower. Two sliding doors can separate the bathroom area from the rest of the room. The king sized bed has been lovely! The seating/bar area hasn't seen much of us, as we've been mostly either outside or reading in bed. Our deck leads you to the beach, but to the left of it is our day bed. Which we've hung out in for only brief periods throughout our stay...because of the mosquitoes!!! So, what did we ...

... chance and then the kava bowl was opened up to everyone. While the kava wasn't bad, the communal cup gave some of us pause, but I just figured that if it was strong enough maybe it killed most of the germs in it anyway. The final portion of the ceremony was the traditional Fijian farewell song. Remember those bass voices I mentioned earlier? The song is fairly long, and in this rendition there were many superb bass voices to carry the tune. It was one of the few ...

... through Nadi at night couldnt see all that much but you could see that it was quite run down - there were even cows &amp; horses just wandering down the road - lots of people just walking down the streets to and kids and for the time of night it was it was quite<br>suprising. <br><br>We spent the first night on Denerau Island at the Golf Terraces Apartments and these were really nice - the minute you walked into the apartment there was your ...