Yasawa Island Resort Fiji

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.

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... walking through knee high 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 ...

... 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 ...

... of Fiji!  We landed in Nadi Airport on the mainland of Viti Levu.  We were quickly whisked away to the resort town of Denauru Island where we took a 3 hour boat ride out to the Yasawa Group of islands.  What a beautiful boat ride passing ...

... 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 ...

A Beautiful island resort great food and cocktails. Such a paradise! Swam with Manta Rays Met the wonderful people of the Closest villag€ snorkled in water as warm as a bath teeming with multi coloured fish and coral. Dave Squba dived and saw an ...

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. ...

... bit of time out now and again. And what a place to unwind. Mum, Sarah, Sam and I travelled to the beautiful Nanuya resort on one of the Yasawa Islands, Fiji. And what a lovely welcome we had too. After a 5 hour boat journey from the main land we arrived. ...

... . I had also met two other girls Amy and Alex who I spent almost a week with traveling around the different Islands. there was one Island where it was the 3 of us and one more couple. Went to Fiji mass saw a local school. Played alot of volleyball and ...

... 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 ...

... other staff, boarding the boat and being ferried out to the Yasawa Flyer, which was heading South towards our final island of the trip. Manta Ray resort is virtually brand new, it's only been open just over a year. The tradition of being sung ashore ...

... . We also had learned to dance the Fijian style a bit. La segunda isla que visitamos fue Navity. Nos quedamos en el resort Korovou. Los burees (casitas tipicas fijianas) tenian baņos. Aqui probamos la Kava (trago tipico fijiano). Tambien aprendimos a ...

... , so we decided to spend quite a few hrs sorting out getting out of the place and getting our money back. Arriving on Octopus resort was luxury! It was amazing - food was fantastic and everything about it was just the best! We were paying a little more ...

... -  to celebrate ouur  wedding anniversary. We spent the last week in the Yasawa islands.  On the first night we joined a traditional Fiji feast followed by an Imeke (traditional dancing and singing). Here are the villagers ...

... of Travel Planners. Our itinerary was to see properties in the Northern Islands: Taveuni, Castaway Island, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Namale, Yasawa Island Resort and Likuliku but due to cyclone Gene our itinerary was revised. We spent most of our time at the ...