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  Upon arriving at Nadi Airport, my travel buddy, Mark and I decided to hop a seaplane to the Yasawa Group of Islands. {I had read about them in the Loney Planet Guide while inflight.} My friend and I love adventure and rarely make any serious plans...I love to see what a place offers and then decide when I get to a destination. It's good to have ideas of what you want to do and what you want to see....but I thrive on flexibility. Taking a different road, so to speak. In the ...

The short trip to the resort gave us the first taste of the big island. It was not very touristy as you would expect from a town of fairly poor inhabitants. The route from the airport had a third-world feel. It is a somewhat unkempt town, but with a friendly no-worries?attitude. The island is heavily influenced by aussies, which makes sense considering its a short 4 hour flight for them. As for the natives, it is made up of indigenous Fijians and East Indians. The latter of mostly run the bus...

Day 2 In Fiji   So I woke up at about 4:00 in the morning (slowly getting used to the time zone) and watched the sunrise. Very nice. Then Melissa and I went to pick up Neno to go… skydiving! Originally it was supposed to be Melissa and I go up , and then Neno, but due to different complications, I had to go up with Neno. Fun part here – Neno is brazilian and has nice brown skin. HE jumped first. So I got to see what Neno would look like white. Then Rob (my tandem jumpmaster) wiggl...

Well well... That was that but I'm not sad to leave this work. I'm sad to leave behind a lot of nice and wonderfull people, my former boss not included... For almost 2 weeks he hasn't spoken to me because he is mad that I'm leaving. So I thought that he would at least drop by today... Nop!!! So I packed my stuff and leaft work at 16.35 and didn't look back:O) Was to leave my house 29/4 at noon, so I was ready to go but apperently the HR dep. didn't feel like saying goodby so they toke t...

Got on the boat back to the main land and headed back to a different hostel with dave and stef. On getting there I bumped in to a group of lads I had met in the cook islands and they were with 2 guys I had met in LA. On getting there, I was watching gladiators on youtube having had a long talk about john fashanu and a girl turned round to me to ask me about gladiators. I thought I recognised this girl and it turned out to be Reggina from Byker Grove. It rained the next two days pretty much ...

A very quick entry with the last 15 minutes of my very expensive internet time...  The 2 days I spent on Beachcomber Island were great.  The weather cooperated so I got to work on my tan a lot!  It was nice to have our tight-knit little group from the FeeJee Experience all together - there were 4 guys and 7 girls.  We layed in the sun during the day and then partied at night.  I'm back in Nadi now trying to kill several hours before my 4am flight to Auckland and Chris...

Got to get out of here today and also got to sort getting to the islands, the travel desk is really not that informative, but took a guess and booked the Awesome Adventure Bula Pass, which basically lets me hop between islands for 2 weeks.  Booked my first 2 nights on an Island called Mantaray Island, will work out the rest once there.  Got the bus into Nadi town centre with Louise, not very nice and really nothing to see, so headed back to hotel for an afternoon by the pool, dinner...

Our Adventurous Fijian Holiday. Our good friend Jonathan, invited us to Fiji to stay with his family and in his village, which is in a very remote part of the interior of Fiji, where white tourists just do not go. We knew this was going to be an adventure, but didn’t know just how much of an adventure! Just getting there was an adventure! Before we left New Zealand, Erle had an accident and tore the calf muscle very badly, so three weeks before we were to leave, Erle was on crutches going...

April 19I spent the next night back on the mainland at Nadi Bay Hotel. This was nothing too exciting. My friends were preparing to leave and I was staying an extra few nights. We had dinner at the restaurant here and met lots of new people. I hooked up with some people to travel with to the Coral Coast. April 20Me friend and I made our way to the Coral Coast with a Fijian man and 5 of his friends in an old mini van. We ended at the Beachhouse which was a great little backpackers place...

My time in Fiji was really really relaxing! The first day/night I stayed on the main land in Nadi. It was a really nice backpackers. However, the beach was not nice at all and the water was really dirty....not what you expect from Fiji. Well, I thought, ok I am going to the two other islands the next day and there the water and the beaches must be nicer.....otherwise, where do they get the pictures for the catalogues from.... The next morning, a bus took us to Denerau Port where we caug...

This morning was an early start as we had to be at the Port by 8:00am to catch the Yasawa Flyer at 08:30am.  The weather could have been better but I had a good feeling once we hit the Yasawa Group, the sky would clear.  We were told that we where heading for the Top Island in the Yasawa's called 'Nacula', it would roughly take about 4 hours, we never minded this as there it was great chance to take in the South Pacifiic  ocean breeze and admire some of the most amazing waters ...

What kind of image do you conjure up in your head when people mention the men of Fiji? For me it's a brick shithouse rugby giant with limbs like tree trunks and a voice deeper than the Pacific ocean. Imagine my surprise therefore when, upon arrival at the tourist info desk at Nadi airport, I'm shepherded into the orbit of Poni the travel agent. Poni is a Polynesian fat period Dale Winton, a flower adorning his voluminous afro and a garish Hawaiian shirt covering a sizeable paunch. "Ooh I'll c...

Today was fun. Vent svimming, had a massage and a good dinner. At the bar I meet the manager and some of the seinor staff. We have a lot of fun. Get to bed at 2 am, have to get up at 7 am. Not so good:O)

Last year I went backpacking in New Zealand and thought:So close to Fiji and what a waste not to fly to this beautiful island! So we spontaneously booked a flight to Nadi and didn't waste our time to stay on the main island but to visit the Yasava islands! We visited Tavewa, one of the small northernmost islands.Next stop was Kuata, my favourite one! And the last one was South Sea island, the smallest island I've ever seen.

Hey everyone! So we have just flown t Sydney after spending 2wks in Fiji so I thought Id fill you in with what we have been doing. We got a Bula pass to island hop round the Ysawa Islands - a group of about 20 islands in Fiji for 2 wks. We started off in South Sea Island - the smallest island in the Mammanucas - it takes like 5mins to walk round the island and wherever you sit you can see the sea in every single direction and it was surrounded by corals. We spent a couple of nig...