Yasawa Island Resort

BULA! Welcome to my blog capturing my trip to Fiji. This was not the typical laze at a resort style trip to Fiji, but an exciting back-pack around the mainland of Viti Levu and the Yasawa group islands.

... waves.  funny to see the people wearing shoes and pants get soaked, obviously not on fiji time yet. next stop was manta ray island and, despite it not being manta ray season, it was a really good time.  sean and i took kayaks out to the next ...

... me appreciate our standard of living back home, but they seemed happy enough.  his daughter returned from boarding school on a different island for their day of rest (sunday) and their walls were covered in hand written verses of the bible in ...

All too soon our stay on Botaira was over and we travelled a further 45minutes north to the island resort of Nanuya. This turned out to be the most luxurious of the islands we stayed on with our accomodation more like a beachfront bungalow than a bure. ...

... so we were early to pack up our stuff and mouw down a quick breakfast before jumping on a bus to denaru port leaving for the yasawa islands.  the bus did a major unnessacary detour and made us late for the sailing, so we were in a mad rush to check ...

... people that we then went to all the islands with (Martin, Harry, Jizzman, Fiona, Jordan, Rhys, Asher and Olivia) the first island wasnt that amazing had a spam sandwich when we got there and Rhiannon had baked beans on rice.  We then went to White ...

... soort walvissen in de vorm van ne pannekoek, indrukwekkend,ik heb het beest kunnen strelen en al! Een adembenemende ervaring, Bula! Tweede resort was Oarsmans Bay helemaal in het noorden, dit was een van de meer luxueuze resorts en dus kozen wij voor ...

Kuata Island was the third island on our trip. Here we had the chance to go to a village and meet the people there. The comunity works together to contribute to their needs. Daniel went diving. We met lots of friendly people including Martin and Heike ...

... to their little island must have a negative affect on the culture and environment. Day 282 - 01/12/08 Tavewa, Yasawa Islands (Coral View Resort) This morning I visited a cave a system on a neighbouring island. It was only a 40 minute ride in a ...

... at was at the top of a chain of islands. The ferry ride took 5 hours from Viti Levu (main land fiji) to the resort on Yasawa Island. The views from the ferry were amasing, as we were passing the others islands, many of which were very picture postcard, ...

... could grab the humidity right out of the air.  The view from the top was worth all of the sweat and fatigue.  The Yasawa Island chain could be seen to the North as well as the small village where the hike begun.  We ate fruit, took photos ...

... the operation runs once you're on the boat. Basically every day the Flyer takes a few hundred backpackers up & down the Yasawa Island chain, dropping them off at any of perhaps 20 village-run "resorts." The resorts have their own tiny little boats ...

... sonst das Dorf mit einem eigenen Schulfonds unterstuetzt. Nach 3 Tagen sind wir dann weiter auf eine andere Insel zum Nanuya Island Resort, das ganz in der Naehe der Blauen Lagune liegt, bekannt aus dem Film mit Brooke Shields. Dort haben wir dann ...

... Saturday morning. I then waited at the airport until 9:15 when I caught a boat to my island Nanuca in the Yasawa island group. 4 hours or so later I arrived at Nanuca island, melbravo resort. We went that evening to meet the chief of the village that ...

... swim round them to large enough that you definately wouldn't!! Limited on budget, we decided we'd head up to the top of the Yasawa Island chain (cheapest) first for 5 nights then head down to the bottom of it for a further 5. So..... we arrived at our ...

... sand dunes or coral atolls but others are large enough to have several villages and are self sufficient - Waya Island is one of these. The Yasawa chain is a vision of paradise with clear turquoise seas, white sandy beaches and lush tropical rainforests. ...

On April 4th I took a boat out to my real destination in Fiji: Octopus Resort on Waya Island in the Yasawa Island group. The resort was everything I expected and more! White sandy beaches, a fantastic pool, a beautiful coral reef in the bay, clean rooms ...

We took a boat from Nadi, Fiji to Octopus Resort on Waya Island in the Yasawa Island chain just NW of the main island of Fiji.  It took about an hour to get there going full force the entire way.  It was a beautiful ride, ...

... nice but felt more crowded and the atmosphere was not that friendly anymore. On the third day we traveled north to the Nanuya island resort.That was the best of all the accommodations (bure), we could go for a snorkeling trip and do kayaking as ...