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BULA!! from FIJI!!
...well auckland, but this is my Fiji part of this crazy adventure!!
Bula is the fijian way for Hello/howdy/wassup/yo, and is said as frequrntly as a Chav saying 'innit''safe''shizzle my nizzle'(lol maybe not so much as that lol)
Now alot has happened in the time we've been parted, so i shall be to the point, except when a waffle, and then at that i point i shall be rambling, which to ramble would be like to exlain the same bit over and over and ov- ...Lol, so yeah, brace yourself for plenty of reading:
The story started 2 weeks previous, on the 2nd April 2005 approximetely 05.53am, when arriving in Fiji Nadi Airport, after what one would call... a s*** flight! it was dull, couldnt sleep, crappy films and basic films, the only up side was the awesome Fijian crew,gang, cronies, posy, grorp..meh you get the picture! "S" might have other views, but it was alright for her tho, she slept her way through it, laid accross several chairs! The airport shiz was quickly sorted, we bought our BOOZE. *Woot* Ah we were craving it, and well we dont do things in half, so we all got ourselves litres of preferred tiple. Southern Comfort going my way!
Now, this is when we noticed summit alittle odd, something you could say was a taboo in our homeland...the men, pretty much all of them, were wearing SKIRTS, not wrap thingies, not baggy shorts, plain old SKIRTS. it was very, errmm, creepy...and what made it odder was that the woman staff, most of them were wearing trousers. may it be we're cultural snobs, but we laughed. we laughed alot! MEGA LOL! And then we really experienced Fiji time!
After sorting out our airport pick up, to our hostel, we sat and waited for the driver and van to arrive. wait we did...wait some more...still waiting...yep, we're waiting...andddd still alittle more waiting...add a few more waitings on to that, and thats when he arrived!clearly in no hurry, as he then spent bout 10mins talking to his airport cronies. he asked us if we needed to pick up any supplies, as nearest store was a fair walk from the hostel, so yeah thoguth that was good, so after passing many decent looking stores, we thought we must be going somewhere really good. we couldnt have been more wrong. sorry for the word, but 'blatantly' he had taken us to his mums shop. his mums rundown, sells b***** all, smelly, crazy fiji boy chasing round store's, out of date products shop! just awesome. awesome awesome awesome! and then, after buying stuff out of politeness, he then told us, he was making another stop. some official driving building. so we waited some more, prob 15mins. he came out with a white packet, which finally on way to hostel, noticed him hang out his arm out window, empty the contents in the wind, and then drop the packet. hmmmmmm...
After first night in fiji, we hit the famous islands, as we had a 2 week island hopper pass. we decided to start at tp islands, and work our way back down. we stayed at resort called Melbravo Resort, it was nice there, but first day, we were only 3 guest. talk about feeling pressured, we were watched while we ate, what you could say was unpleasant grub, and then we had to dance with them. the Bula Dance, now that dance goes down in history, ofcourse 's' will make sure everyone knows it when we're back, and then they were just plain old making pure fools of us, with all these embarrasing other dances. it was good times! Fiji is absolutely stunning, you have never seen anything like it, esp. the sea, whith thousand different shades of blue, and so clear, with awesome reefs. we did several trips at this resort, one visitng the Blue lagoons, where amazing coral and site of the film 'blue lagoon', where we were harrassed by this mini shark looking fish, that ket head butting us and trying to get up our shorts. everytime we went to snorkel, it managed to find us. another trip we did was to the 'Sawa-I-Lau' Caves. this has to be one of the best experiences i've ever done. on way we stoopped off at several villages, as the local boatman of resort was our guide, we spent 45,mins in his small boat riding the waves to get there. but the caves were unreal, so beautiful and awesome. we climbed these steps, summit out of movie set, down to a cave lagoon, and we could get into other chambers, via swimming through underwater tunnels. it was amazing. so clean and fresh, and awesome!
right, culture experience alert! on our last night on the island we were on, we tried kava. Kava is a local drink, a narcotic, which is often used instead of alcohol. it is root from plant, grounded and added to some water (to basic it up), and there is this whole ritual you have to do, during kava sessions, which complicated it slightly. drinking it is pretty much like drinking muddy water. it is meant to have some kind of crazy effect on you, but all i got was a furry tongue and slept well. the others hated it, the session lasts til the bowl is finished, which steph nearly cried cos she hated it so much, and robin was gagging everytime he drank. i didnt gag, but wouldnt say i loved it. all in all, little bit let down. stupid thing was, the kava chief was asleep after one cup, and his son had to take over.
We moved from this island, and moved too another, and stayed at resort called white sandy. alittle nicer, alittle cleaner. alittle better grub. all, was a little better! not much happened here, except from on sunday in fiji, everything stops for day, and church is big. we went to a church service. it was a hoot forward slash / alittle bit odd. we arrived and the priest started taking pics of us with digital camera. was really authentic though with awesome keyboard gospel singing dude, we kept having to "big it up to the LORD" and give him a round of applause every 5 mins. the priest had a nack of repeating the same line twice, robin fell asleep. it was a hoot!
Now this island was a vital part for a new charachter of the story, Miryam Suslensky, an israelian from Israel...she's cool. we adopted her into our pack, and over several days she became a chum. then we had to leave her, but planned to meet again before our time was up.
Being in Fiji, we thought it best to treat ourselves, you know...when in rome and all that. so we decided to stay at Octopus Resort, one of the top beaches in the world. and it was. the boat journey there was very dodgy, everyone has to packed indoors, we went through a cloud...didnt know you could have turbulance in a boat, the boat was very shaking, right in the middle of it, was our turn to depart. steph nearly vommed, we nearly drowned, ofcourse i overreact but it was alittle hairy inplaces! but octopus, it was like an feckin dream. we nearly fainted when we saw our beds, not only were they proper beds, with mozi nets not including holes, but we had electricity and personnal fans and lights. nah its rare to have electricity here, generators maybe between certain necessary cookinghours, but thats it. 24/7 electricity. then we saw the showers. steph screamed, hot water and space and no holes in ground, and proper doors and ceilings. heaavveeen!!! while here, i thought id go all out and have a massage, the best massage in the world i might add! think there is the definition of 'Relaxation'. After several days there, we had to sleep, but it was good, as time for more Miryam Funtime on Beachcomber, the PARTY ISLAND. WOOOO!!!
Party island it was, to the point of including an inhibitation of chavs, from every walks of the world! we sunned, we drank, we danced, we laughed. we had fun! we always met the camera bandits. The camera bandits were a creation developed by steph. the story,in brief, is as follows:
Dancing-Steph notices someone with her stuff-goes over-people putting her camera in their pocket-she says "err thats like my camera in your pocket-they're ike 'err oh god im sorry'-(point you must know, while she walks over she also see's them holding her brick of a purse)-they'e like 'er sorry we have like the same camera'steph not wanting argue, is like 'yeh kk no worries-they go away-steph is angry cos, as she put, 'ah i spose we have the same f-ing purse aswell'-they kept avoiding us all night, while steph pondered on it and created a whole backlog story of them 'The Camera Bandits'-later that night she comfronted them-they we flabbergasted at her accusations-the were like 'we have the same camera'-showed her-steph says "they're not the same, they are 2 f-ing different cameras. thats a sony,that a kodak. they couldnt be more f-ing different (she was druunk an angered)-they were shocked-very shocked-and embarrassed infront of everyone-it was funny-go steph!
i managed to loose a memeroy card with my phots and msuci on, so they got me annoyed, but in fiji, that dont last long.Miryam had to leave, so as surprise we planned to go to main land early, and travel to coral coast to join her!so we did!
We met someone on boat back, who looked like Lily Allen, with less hair, she was a mix of boston/fiji/islam/muslim/budda/hindi...alittle screwed up, but i thought id mention her cos it was like meeting lil allen...meh crap story!
The night in Nadi, before travelling to coral coast, was pure s***. this hostel was full of drunk tosssers. they kept coming in our dorm, and carrying conversations with people outside, then bringing people in the room. the security guard got invlved, he didnt are though. they continued. until steph had enough and screamed at the guy when he came in again, "YOU ARE ACTUALLY THE f***ING LOUDEST GUY I HAVE EVER MET"...the next day, extremely tired, up early to get a bus. well what a bus. it was hot, sweaty, full of cockcroaches and with a karmikarzye bus driver. we nearly died. he couldnt drive. and what was more scary, was that at the side of road several other vehicles has fallen down the cliff ditch! we somehow made it, and arrived at coral coast, surprising Miryam, at resort called Beachouse. what a resort, best dorm of trip so far. it was the location for Celbrity Love island, which is cheesy way was cool, as you can see the way it was set, with backstage looking walls, the places the 2way mirrors were, and writing on the walls by the celebs. while here we did a trek in the rainforest, that was awesome, where inthe middle there were the most amazing waterfalls. see facebook. the guide was alittle bit of a chuffnut, i thought he was very racist, as he kept going on bout "blackpower" and how white people cant do this and that, compared to him and his bloddy "blackpower". robin got so annoyed, he wouldnt take his help everytime he offered it! lol
The day before leaving Fiji, we went back to Nadi, so we could do abit of shopping, see the town, markets, and visit the 1 of 2 McDonalds in Fiji. we went to markets, where we had to bahter, abit of the old haggling!i was good...Bring on Thailand! this experience in fiji, did manage to get more sleep.
We're now in New zealand, when had to finally say goodbye to Miryam, but its okay, we have picked up a new friend. Dude from America, which makes me look like a midget. mum and nicki, you'd both merely be crumbs to him!
oh the flight was short, and so much fun with a film called Sydney White, amanda Bynes, so bad it was good. have to check it out. laughed all way through!pure cheese!
Keep in touch with messages or email. missing you all.
take care. stay safe
Laterrrs
'C'
P.S. i cant manage to add photos, will keep trying on every comp.sorry if bad grammer.havent read it back
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