Fijian village tour

We've chosen a tour beautifully advertised as "The Jewel of Fiji".

With very unpredicted weather, we were driven to the harbour. There some motor-boates were waiting for us and took us, in the full rainfall, up the river to a Fijian village - Navua.

40 participants didn't lose their good mood  and  actively participated in a traditional Fijian ceremony of welcoming foreign tribes - yaqona - kava. This sacred, full of seriousness and full of solemn words ceremony ends with a treat of this non-alcoholic drink for everybody present.

Before drinking a gulp of kava, about which you can read below, you should clap your hands once and say "BULA!", and after drinking it, you should clap your hands three times again.

After the ceremony all the tribes become befriended.

In our group there were tribes from:

Australia. New Zeeland, USA, China, and two representatives of a very exotic tribe form Poland.

What is kava?

"Kava or kava-kava is a crop of the western Pacific regardless of religion, political or cultural importance in respective countries. Although kava has some psychoactive influence, it hasn't been proved that one can get addicted to it.It is consumed as herbal tea. Different to alcohol, kava triggers feelings of no trouble and happiness, moderating at the same time propensity towards aggression, anger or noise; some people experience pins and needles around their genitals, which could intensifys the pleasure of sex. In Poland any possession of dry, seeds, extracts of kava is illigal."

After having danced the friendship dance, we ate local lunch and set off for a voyage to the bigger waterfall of the river Navua. From there we floted down on a bamboo raft.

The rain accompanied us the whole time, but the high air temperature eased the monsoon inconvenience.

We came back to our hotel happy confirming, in spite of the fear that it would be another tourist trap, the advertisment beeing absolutely right: the tour was exciting, the Fijians authentically charismatic and charming.

Hungry, we threw ourselves at our hotel crackers and there our funniest adventure happened, which we register under the surprise No 8.

I had just had a drink (me - Jacek, to dispel all the doubts) and was having a crakcer snack which turned ou to be our camera memory card! Don't ask me how it happened!  

The card has been demaged and we couldn't recover our super great photos from the village tour! The recovery computer help couldn't do anything about it!

What we have attached here today are the advertisment photos from the tourist agency.

We need to wait a biot for the originals - maybe some USA caompany could retrieve the pictures.