Up at 7:00, packed, had breakfast, and the bus left about 8:15. Stopped at Pacific Harbour for a short while to buy whatever we wanted, then to Navua, and did a three hour trek. The truck ride up the start of the trek was amazing. It was along old, muddy, backroads, and the drivers were crazy, trying to drive as fast as they could along the muddy roads, so as not to get stuck, constantly being threatened with the going over the of the mountain ledge! Ah well, these guys do this three times a week, I guess they know what they're doing. One of the trucks did get stuck, and took him a few tries to get out of his mud-hole. The trek was about 3 hours, very muddy, through a tropical rain forest, then an hour or so trekking up a stream that got thigh deep in some places. Very slippery as well, many people fell into the water.
After the trek, tubed down the Navua river for a while (15 minutes, not long enough), then viewed a great waterfall, then took long boats back to the bus and drove to Suva (biggest city in Fiji, and capital of Fiji).
We're staying at the Peninsula International Hotel. We were supposed to stay at a backpacker joint, but the South Pacific Olympic Games just ended in Suva, and the backpacker place was full. 3 people per room, I'm staying with two very attractive sisters from the US (Georgia). Yowsers! Becky and Laura Williams. I got pictures of them. :-)
At 8:00PM, we all went to a Chinese restaurant for supper, then about 10:30, we all went to O'Reilly's bar. It's also Helen's birthday. We had birthday cake at the restaurant as well. O'Reilly's was dead until we showed up. The bar closed at 1:00AM, so we all got a free mini-bus ride back to the hotel. There will be many hangovers tomorrow morning.
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