Mana After a night at the Planet Travel lodge (this time with clean towels and sheets and a proper meal not pizza). We set off to Travellers beach to catch the boat to Mana, it was a long bumpy ride on a small wooden boat, with the Indian carpenters, a group of Irish girls and a couple (blokes) from England. When we got there we were greeted by Rachel( a big stern Fijian woman), and introduced to Papa Joe and Baby Joe. We were told to pitch anywhere s...

Kuata We arrived at Kuata to another Bula Welcome, on a long stretch of beach. Our little camp garden was lovely; we pitched under a palm tree to keep us dry and went off to have a nice cuppa on the decking area overlooking the sea. This place was busier and not as friendly as coral view but still nice and less rural. Meal times were a buffet but loads of food (much to Ian’s joy) but a big competition (herding instinct!) we were always at th...

Tavewa Island – Coral View Resort We Spent 6 hours in the rain on the big Awesome Adventure Catamaran out to the Yasawas. After we were offloaded to a small boat when we heard Coral View being called out we arrived at a little island where we were greeted by a bunch of people singing a lovely song – Bula Welcome song on the beach. We first went and met Seva, a huge very camp Fijian bloke, very funny. He told us to pitch up at then end ...

We set off from pacific Harbour to Namouka Bay, this became a wild goose chace, even the bus drivers didnt want to take us as they'd never heard of it. We finally went to Sigatoka and met Shamim the taxi driver who was a great guy, took us there and probably didnt charge enough, it was miles and miles off the Queens road. We arrived to a beautiful place, traditional Bure, totally quiet and secluded by the beach. We were met by Vanny who was so nice and Den...

We went to Pacific harbour for our diving and accomodation special deal. We got there and were greeted by a very dodgy pervy ozzy bloke. The place was small but the room was great, we had our own kitchen. We asked about the dive company and guess what it was the one that had had complaints in the lonely planet...oops. We decided to go and check them out but they didnt seem to be able to tell us anything. We cooked a really nice curry which we bought ...