Day 10.

We spent the morning deciding what to do. The past 3 days or so we have occasionally thought about how we would like to leave Fiji. Its not that we haven’t liked it, its just that we have done so much that once you have got a feel for the place, there isn’t much more you can do. Its Sunday and we leave at 8am Tuesday morning.

Eventually we decided to go to the local beach, then head back to NadI, the complete s*** hole, airport town. The thought being that we do a cheap day trip on Monday, then go to the airport late at night to sleep and in doing so save on a nights accommodation. We’d have to be there at 5am otherwise, still pay for a full nights kip, and risk finding a taxi that early, so its not really worth it.

There is a mud pool tour on offer here which gets cheaper the more that go. As luck would have it, we were trying to get the price down for us 2 when 2 Swedish girls turned up wanting to go. So it’s a 9am start and we’re splitting the cost 4ways (now £8) for a full day trip including some grub. At least it’ll keep us away from here for the day, although we’ll be forced to look at 2 Swedish girls in bikinis all day.

This evening I have been writing all these updates and I have just shocked myself finding out its over 2000 words…….there isn’t much else to do here. It is a bit excessive I know, but unlike Duncan I’ll just lose any journal I make. So I’m afraid its as much for me as it is for you.

Duncs - If anyone has read this far you’re very dedicated as Lee seems to work harder on this than he did at Uni I reckon! Fiji has been an amazing place to visit and for all the hard traveling and at times boring, restless moments traversing the main island it was good to see a real country behind the idyllic white sand and azure waters. Suva was a real eye-opener as the heavy military presence reflected a hostile political climate, the people here are so friendly that it makes you worry their country will be not be ruined by military dictatorships. The villages were fascinating also, despite the poverty and the remnants of traditional Fijian culture through sacred ceremonial space and kava ceremonies a big Western cultural footprint can be seen everywhere, with Justin Timberlake music playing on the local bus and WWF wrestling on TV!