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Fiji has been varied in experiences. Whilst booking my trip to Fiji at this time of year my trael agent neglected to tell me that it is cyclone season. Half of the week has been terrential rain.
When I first arrived off the same flight as four others from kiwi experience we were greeted by a band of singers in the true polynesian way which was slightly like the perfect veiw of the country I had. Then when we arrieved at our hotel on the mainland the girls were all given a tropical flower to place in our hair and a couple of guitar playing Fijian's sang ver nicely through our amazingly fresh and tasty meal. As all five of us have been used to packet noodles and hostels for the last while an a la carte menu, bread before dinner and cocktails with an umbrella on top made us very happy indeed. From our first impressions we were very excited about what was to come.
The following morning very early, Elly, my new travelling buddy from school arrived off her plane and we both got excited aobut the week to come. That day we travelled an hour by local bus to the natural mud pools near the city of Lautoka. At the cost of only 3 pounds we enjoyed playing in volcanically heated mud which we then rubbed all over our bodies and faces, let dry for half an hour then jumped in the natural hot pool to wash off. As well as getting to have fun in mud our skin was perfectly soft and moisturized after. As the bus would not be picking us back up till 2.30pm we decided to go for a walk to "the garden of the sleeping giant" an extensive collection of orcids. We had packed a luch so by the tie we got there we decided to sit down and eat only to sit in a swarm of mosquitos, where I ended up with around 200 bites predominantly on my thighs. Horrible to look at and extremely itchy!!! The rain all but srtayed off for about an hour late afternoon but we were warned this was normal.
The next morning the bus picked us up to head to the port of Denaru for our first 5 hour boat ride to the island of Tevawa to the resort of Coral view. As soon as we arrived it started to rain, and rain hard. The island is pretty basic and not greared towards indorr activites so the next three days were spent playing cards and waiting for the next meal time. This was not the start to our holiday in the sun we were hoping for. We did, although, enjoy the nightly entertainment of dancing singing and learning native dances but as I am led to believe that cyclone season is for 4 months a year every year I think the resort needs to be more prepared with things to do.
When we arrived on the next island Mantaray we greeted by yet more terrential rain but we much preferred this island as the food was excellent and staff were very firendly and eager to help in any way. We stayed on mantaray for two nights and by the evening of the second nigt the sun had finally arrived with the cyclone centre supposedly having missed the island. The whole resort was out on the beach as early as 8am enjoying the first sun we had seen since we got to Fiji. I was sad to leave Mantaray and our new friend Kenny who worked on the island and helped us to make coconut bracelets but excited for a new island.
Our third and final island was South sea Island, a tiny island it took approximately 5 minutes to walk around it's circumference. The evening was quiet with only 15 of us staying overnight. The storm the day before had caused this tiny island to be evacuated so was deserted when we arrived. The following day we had a full day of free activities on offer before having to catch our final boat at 6pm. The island offers day trips so during the day there was a total of 114 people with us enjoying free kayaking, snorkelling, trips in the semi-submarine and even being shown how to tie a traditional fijian sarong called a sulu. It was by far the best day we had whilst island hopping and getting to be out in the sun was as much fun as I had imagined it was going to be.
Last night after returning to the mainland we enjoyed one final night at our first hotel and again good food and good cocktails enjoying our final evening in Fiji. I am so glad that by the end of the 8 days the sun arrived because I will now remember this place for fun in the sun rather than boredom inside, a great country with trustworthy extremely friendly people.. "Bula"!!!!
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