Bula ( which is hello in Fijian)

So I have just send 18 days in fiji and the time flew by! Our flight got in at 2 am which was not ideal, after being harassed by lots of people we found a nice stop to chill until the feejee experience office opened and we could work out what we were actually meant to be doing!!

So at 8 am we started our Feejee Adventure, we got picked up from the airport and went around picking up everyone else! Turned out there were 10 girls all together which was very amusing but we all got on really well and had a brill few days! So bearing in mind we have had no proper sleep and just wanted to curl up in a ball we carried on through the dad with a smile on out faces because we were in Fiji!!!!!

Day one included visiting Nadi town to get supplies, water was our main thing but we also needed sarongs for the village visits! We took ride to Natadola beach which was beautiful and I decided this is what Fiji is all about, Turquoise waters and white sands!! We chilled out on the beach whilst the guide and drive cooked us a BBQ lunch ( yes spoilt I know!) After lunch we were shown how to put on our sarongs correctly and went to visit a local village!

We ended the day with a swim, Kava ceremony (which is there local drink it is made from Kava roots tasted like muddy water with some numbing substance in it! Very weird stuff but in the villages they don’t drink alcohol so it is the drink the use to relax, at any special occasion when they meet with the chief of the village, pretty much all the time!) and a had lovely meal. Also bumped into two girls I went to secondary school with randomly which was a bit crazy, so sat and watched a crab race with them and chilled with a beach fire!

Day two started early and we stopped off to get water and lunch, before starting a 4 hour rainforest trek, after 10 minutes we were dripping in sweat as it was so humid, we spent ages walking on red clay which was really slippery. Near the end of the trek was a half and hour walk in a stream before a huge up climb then we had the challenge of getting down to the river! ( Dale just could not seem to stay on her feet it was a very amusing trek!) We then tubed down the river in inner tubes which was the best. The day ended with a chill out on the beach and once again a lovely meal!

Day three we visited a town where we had to wear sarongs and have our arms covered and preformed the Kava ceremony with the chief who welcomed us into his village, we got to make leaf bracelets then visited the local primary school and the children sang and danced for us! They have 8 classed and only 4 teachers the kids have to wait in the classroom for the teacher to be free!! How crazy is that!!

After the school visit we had a rather odd experience, we were told we were going rafting! But we had to wear shorts or sarongs over out swimming outfits! Which was fine but it was a long muddy walk to the river and then the rafts were five pieces of bamboo tided together where each one had 4 of us on and someone steering with a punting stick!! Then we got out to the river and our guide made us get into this muddy water and play ball games in it!! Not what I expected but was a giggle!!!

Day 4 we got up early and went kayaking, which was very amusing as we both had the same strong arm so found it hard to go in a straight line!! But was fun to see the islands from a different view! We then got on the bus and went to the main Indian populated town in Fiji (there are lots if Indians there was they came over to work the sugar cane fields) where we had lunch in some restaurant down some back alley! The food was nice and cheap as chips! For about 2 pounds 50 I got curry, rice. Popadom, nana! I was well impressed!! We then visited what was described as mud pools! I would say it was the worst thing ever! It was pretty much a pond with mud and leaves up to above our knees! Funnily enough I did not stay in there long, there was also some hot pools which we went in which were ok but I would not repeat the experience!

That was the end off out trip around the main island, the whole group met up for dinner as a final good bye which was really nice!

We chilled in Nadi for a day and got ourselves sorted for island hopping!

We visited 5 islands all together and each one was very different! The first one was tiny but you could kayak and snorkel to your hearts content! And the coral just off the island was beautiful, with bright blue starfish and beautiful fish!
We did a day trip out to the island where most for castaway was filmed which was beautiful! We got to dive in off the boat and snorkel to the beach! I was having great fun but dale suddenly swam to the beach it was not till I got there that I found out she was being stung by sea lice! I don’t know if I was but I did not register it!!

Moving from island to island was a challenge, firstly you get on a little boat at the island then that boat takes you out where you meet the kind of mini ferry then you have to get up and hop to that boat (they make you clean your feet in water to get the sand off, so amusing) then you sit on that for a while till you have to get back on to a little boat which normally did not have seat to the island. When you arrive or leave and island they sing to you!! As say “welcome home” they are so friendly it is lovely.

I had a bad experience on one island with bed bugs it was horried I woke up and was one big bite! Also this was when the weather took a turn for the worst and we had 2 pretty dull days but is all picked up after that! We went snorkeling with reef sharks which were amazing!

Think I have babbled on enough
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