Hiya once again. We're flying over to New Zealand tomorrow morning (Saturday) so this will be our last Fiji update. As we've already mentioned we've spent the last week island hopping around the Yasawa Islands which are a little group of islands situated north of Viti Levu which is the mainland, as if you didnt already know that! Its fair to say it was an experience. Our first destination was on the most northerly island which was a 5 hour catamaran trip away fro...

Hey everybody. Sorry we haven't updated the site for a while. We've spent the past week island hopping and we had no internet access or phone signal, very strange!! Anyway we'll get to that later. This entry is all about our day trip to a real genuine not at all for the tourists village up in the "Sleeping Giant" mountains of the Fijian mainland. Probably sounds a bit naff but bear in mind it was only the 2 of us taking the trip, no such thing as safety...

Bula everybody (thats hello in Fijian). We've just arrived back in our hostel after 4 mega fantastic days on Robinson Crusoe Island. Its a tiny little island just off the mainland with one resort on it. We were officially initiated as Islanders with a traditional Kava ceremony, the ceremony involves sitting around a big bowl, clapping your hands and occasionally being forced to drink something that resembles and tastes like muddy water. Lovely! &nbs...

Hello again, we've arrived in Fiji!!! It was really strange flying across the International Date Line, cant really work out how the time difference works but we've come to the conclusion that Phil is going to have to stay up until 4am Sunday morning if he wants to watch the Liverpool match. Not a lot to report about Fiji except that its very very hot. The hostel we had booked on the Internet minged so we've moved next door (Gemmas choice!!!) to a bran...