More Photos from Fiji

This was the sunset on my last night in Fiji. It had rained all day, and the sky opened up perfectly, just in time for sunset! I took this shot on the beach where I met a guy named Michael who was a dive master! He reccomended this spot in New Zealand to go diving and it turned out to be a really great spot, with a A+ dive operator. I was glad to have asked him to take my picture. Chance encounters like that is what makes travel so great!

Jayme ordered pizza in Fiji and this is what it looked like! We were laughing, but it tasted great!

This was us on the canoe, you can only take the bamboo raft down river...the current is too strong, in order to get to the waterfall that we climbed we had to take a canoe with a motor on back of it.
Bamboo Rafting down the River. We were lucky to run across lots of waterfalls off to the side. The guide said that after it rains you can see at least a hundred waterfalls off the banks of the river, it had rained all morning, so we had a lucky experience!

Jayme drinking the milk from a coconut. This common on all the Pacific Islands! This was not our first fresh coconut!

Front of the main gathering area, of the tribe. The villager is blowing on a conch shell, to welcome us the village. They did this to welcome all visitors to the village, and immediately following with a kava ceremony. Where they grind the roots of the kava plant and offer this to the cheif who represents the visiting tribe. Back in the day, the Fijians were canibals- the only local source of food was from bats, so in order to sustain the tribe, a person gave themselves to the tribe with great honor (so they say)! Once the Islands were colonized by the British, more sources of food were brought in...and today all of the tribes are Christan.


Side view of some of the buildings in a Fijian village. Everything is made by hand by the woman of the tribe. The walls are made from the Banana plant which has been boiled to create the tan color (origanally green). If they didn't boil the leaves they would rot out.