Exploring the Yasawas plus more (and more) repairs
Bet your school bus wasn't like this Three and a half weeks in the Yasawa island group and we encountered exactly two sailboats. This is the Fiji cruising in cyclone season "dividend". The Yasawas are a thirty-five mile hop from Fiji's international airport in Nadi but feel a world away. While there are tourist accommodations ranging from hostels to five star hotels, the local communities feel very much the same as places we have been in Fiji far from any tourists. Fijians come from across the country to work at the resorts in this area and, from our outsider perspective, it doesn't seem like an easy existence. Many people work 24 days in a row and then have four to five days off during which they travel back to spend time with their families who may be on the other side of the country. Then they come back and do it all over again with the warmest smiles and happiest laughter. The Fiji cyclone season dividend Five hundred years ago or 2024? After leaving Vuda mar