What time is it there?!

On our way through back through Nadi we got to see Denerau Island, which is a developing cluster of foreign owned 5 star hotels and golf courses just a few miles from the airport. It’s very sad to think that some people who tell you that they have “been to Fiji” will have got off the plane, travelled by air-conditioned coach through the secure gated entrance, and then spent a week on the golf course before being whisked back to the airport. This certainly wasn’t what we came to do.....

Well, we can’t exactly claim to have ‘roughed it’, neither can we say that we have visited a large number of islands or any of the more remote islands. In two weeks we have visited 8 towns, on four different islands (which means that we only have about another 100 inhabited islands to visit in the future) and have seen everything from small Fijian villages to busy market towns which seem as if they could easily be on the coast of the Indian Ocean rather than the Pacific.

So, we’ve certainly not seen it all, and we can’t claim to be experts, but we can definitely say that we’ve “been to Fiji”!