From the moment we stepped onto the airplane bound for Fiji, we were greeted with BULA! their universal word of welcome. And the Bulas haven’t stopped since! Fijians definitely live up to their reputation as the Friendliest People on Earth!
BULA is Hello, To Your Health, Welcome; a smile and a nod on the street, a shout from the window from a small child, a chorus from a cluster of teenagers in the park, a lilting melody from a smiling Fijian woman.
“Bula! Bula!” says the man walking down the road with a machete in his hand and fresh bananas slung over [ ... ]
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From the moment we stepped onto the airplane bound for Fiji, we were greeted with BULA! their universal word of welcome. And the Bulas haven’t stopped since! Fijians definitely live up to their reputation as the Friendliest People on Earth!
BULA is Hello, To Your Health, Welcome; a smile and a nod on the street, a shout from the window from a small child, a chorus from a cluster of teenagers in the park, a lilting melody from a smiling Fijian woman.
“Bula! Bula!” says the man walking down the road with a machete in his hand and fresh bananas slung over [ ... ]
Driving around Fiji was a wonderful experience. The people here are truly some of the friendliest in the world! Here we ran into some kids playing in their village, having a great time outside. No X-Box here!
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Tags: budget travel, children of fiji, Fiji, Fiji road trip, happy children, savusavu, travel
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This post is Part 5 of the Livin’ in Fiji – A House Sitter’s Story
Indian Curry Cooking Class
As I’m eating the leftovers from our Indian Curry Cooking Class at the Sea View Restaurant in Savusavu, I’m still amazed that we actually cooked this! The brilliant hues of fresh vegetables, golden pieces of perfectly seasoned walu fish and I can’t forget the chewy, but fluffy roti with the perfectly charred bubbles. It’s tastes as wonderful for breakfast as it did last night when we made it!
A hands-on, in-the-kitchen Indian cooking class for $15 Fiji dollars, plus we get to eat everything [ ... ]
As we drove around Fiji we often saw these copra kilns. For many people, and especially in the Fijian villages, the production of Copra is a primary source of income. With the coconut trees so prevalent across the island you can see why it is a popular activity.
Making copra is not an easy task. Coconuts are gathered and then cut open and halved. The coconut meat is then dried – most often using a kiln shown above. Many locals who use the kiln will bring the dried product to the copra mill for final production. When the copra production [ ... ]
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Tags: budget travel, Copra, copra mill, copra shed, Fiji, savusavu, travel
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This post is part 4 of the series Livin’ in Fiji – A House Sitters Story
We find we’re spending quite a bit of time writing and working from the porch here in Fiji where we’re house sitting. The owners have named their home Sunset Cottage and from the views when the sun drops behind the mountains, it’s easy to see why.
The view is mesmerizing. Hazy mountains across Savusavu Bay decorate the vast expanse of water that starts at the end of the driveway. The sound of waves on the rocky shore puts us to sleep at night. During the day, [ ... ]
This is the first in the series of posts from Livin’ in Fiji – A House Sitters Story.
MEETING PADDY…
Our first responsibility at our Fiji house-sit is to take care of Paddy, described as a Fijian mutt, but clearly there’s a little German Shepard in the mix as well. Grey hairs in her muzzle tell us she’s not quite a puppy anymore. She’s an outside dog who comes in every night to sleep on the porch and during the day she prefers to sun in the yard surveying the driveway from her spot at the top. After seeing pictures and her [ ... ]
