Matangi Resort(Beachfront Bure) Matangi Island

It would have been nice to do Fiji in seperate entries but short of time so you get a bumper edition today, you lucky things, this will be the whole 2 weeks there.....enjoy. As mentioned previously I was on the same flight as the 2 marks from Stoke so travelled to the airport with them and boarded to Fiji. We were also staying in the same hostel so thought we would make plans together for the first week as they only had a week in Fiji compared to my 2 weeks. I found it hard to get my head ...

unser letzter Stopp - die Fiji Inseln!!! Yeeeh - nach dem doch eher kuehleren Wetter auf der Nordinsel Neuseelands - ein passender und schoen warmer Schlusspunkt....

..als wir in Nadi angekommen sind, haben wir uns erstmal auf den Weg zu den Hot Springs und den Mud Pools in den Sabeto Mountains aufgemacht, wo wir mit Wegbegleiter Daniel fuer gerade einmal 10 Fiji-Dollar gebadet haben..trotzt leichtem Nieselregen hat uns das so richtig ...

Jeff was up bright and early as he was going diving at 8am, so he went down to breakfast on his own. I used the time to catch up with my emails and had a chat with Nikki through Face Book. Me and the children then followed later but ended up having to rush as Dan wanted to be at Kids Club by 9.30am. He had enjoyed the day before so much that he wanted to go again with Naomi and make things out of coconut ...

Another great breakfast first thing and then Dan went off to Kids Club at 9.30am and then Jeff went diving at 10am..............some Mother-Daughter time :-)

Dan was so brave as he went on his own - Lucy decided that she didn't want to go to the club but would go in the afternoon. Dan had made friends with 3 Aussie boys before they left for the beach so he went off quite happy to have fun on the beach :-)

Lucy and I relaxed by/in the pool ...

Nadi

Once again, we flew into another very exciting place! When you think of Fiji, you think blue oceans, golden beaches and tiny desserted islands. The reason for this is that Hollywood loves to make movies here, such as in 'Castaway'. This however as we would find out, isnt quite the whole story. Following the 'fun' travel escapades to get to Fiji we were greeted by hot weather and sunshine. We stayed at 'Smugglers Cove' in a 30-bed dorm which sat on the beach. We ...

... 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!

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 ...

... this enormous scary purple fish (never did find out what that was....). No sharks tho thankfully! If one more person tells me "they're only reef sharks, they won't hurt you" I'll scream. I dont care what type of sharks they are, I dont want them anywhere near me! On the first night at Manta Ray we had a show by some local villagers and then a bonfire on the beach - such a great night! The next night I braved a ...

... Nasty things, insect repellent: I never use it.' 'What do you do to keep the insect away then?' (We get EATEN in Fiji) 'I plug in an electric device in the room.' What room? You spend 90% of your time outdoors. And in our room, you cannot close any windows, those appliances only work in closed environments. ' I have seen the grass die after a tourist walked on it with insect repellent.' Anyway, I do not see any connection with my diving, am confused ...

... in the corner!) Amongst other things, we were told that village societies are divided into classes/castes into which every person is born and (except women by marriage) cannot escape. Even those who leave the village to get jobs, degrees, wealth, etc. must return to their chiefly/warrior/farmer-fisherman group when they return. Strangely too, whales teeth are still used and valued as dowries and for payment for land, houses, etc. Leaving the village (sent off by the ...

February 5 to 8,
Suva We were coming to the end of our time in Fiji and headed back to Suva to wrap up the training assignment. I spent two days summarizing course evaluation data from the sessions in Suva and Lautoka and fleshing out my report for the Association of Canadian Community Colleges.


February 7, Nandali
Several years earlier a group of Fijians had made a trip to Canada where they toured religious and ...