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Bula! When we got to Nadi, Fiji at 5am we were met by the friendly travel agent who had come 45 minutes to meet us and had arranged all our travel and accommodation for us so we were pretty quickly on the boat out to Mana Island. One thing we noticed was that at any time of day anywhere in Fiji there's always a few people with guitars there to greet you by singing and dancing (even at 5am).
The ferry ride itself was amazing going through all the gorgeous islands, such as the one on celebrity love island...we were starstruck! All of them had amazingly clear water and cool looking reefs. Our island was bigger than a few of the little ones but was spectacular still. It was called Mana Island, and our hostel was Ratu Kini's, and as with most of the places in Fiji, it included all meals, which in our case were really nice. Lots of nice vegetables, beef and chicken etc.
The snorkelling right off the beach in front of our place was so good, and though the fishes weren't massive, they were so colourful and our favourite was the Triggerfish (no underwater camera now so google it!). The coolest beach was a ten minute walk across the island, called Sunset beach, where the snorkelling further out was probably the best in the whole place. We intended to walk around the whole island, but once we felt the heat and humidity, we couldn't walk much longer than ten minutes. That was fine though for the four or five days we were there, and we were more than happy to chill out every day.
We loved it there and it definately felt like a holiday, but even better than we thought it would be and the people were amazingly cool. We think 5 days was about right, and having met people since who did 2 weeks, they thought that was too long, mainly because the heat is so tiring. So then we flew on to Auckland, new Zealand on the 21st December for our next leg of the journey...
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