Thursday June 11, 2015
From Alexis Caravas via iPhone message:
We finally arrived in Fiji on June
10th, very early in the morning. Nevertheless, everyone was ready to
get on the bus to head to the Fijian town of Raki Raki. The bus ride
to Raki was beautiful but long. However we got to see the beautiful
countryside of Fiji as well as all the quaint villages filled with
people everywhere yelling 'bula' to use everytime we passed by. When
we arrived in Raki, our trip leaders Craig and Harry told us to buy
our sulus or our dress for the village. So the group went to multiple
little shops to find out different patterned sulus. Matt J. bought 5
sulus, most of which are pretty and pink! After we all met up at a
small restaurant to have some really awesome dishes like chicken and
rice and chow mein. After the town visit, the group loaded back onto
the bus to our resort, Takalana. Takalana is absolutely gorgeous. The
boys share a large cabin and girls have a sweet little cottage to
themselves. The food at this resort is awesome and the company is
pretty great too. Sammy, Matt J, Abe, Lee, Joe and Matt M have all
enjoyed playing football and frisbee and this afternoon there was
even a game of vollyball with the locals down by the water. Earlier
today we all hiked to a water hole nearby the resort. Once we arrived
the boys had no problem jumping off of one of the rocks into the very
cold water. As for the ladies, it took a while for us to jump but
Abigail, Madison and Masha all enjoyed jumping multiple times. Emily
recorded the entire experience on her gopro while she splashed in the
water for a bit too. After our hike we came back to learn how to
correctly open a coconut. Gustav became a professional at carving
coconuts to get the milk out. Soon after one of the Fijian women from
a nearby village used the coconut milk to make us fudge. It was
amazing.
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