Landed in Nadi and stepped off the plane into an incredibly hot and humid climate, with happy Fijians singing to us as we disembarked and entered the airport building. I decided to go straight to the remote resort of Mana island in the Mamanucas, about 1.5hrs off the coast by hydrofoil. I just wanted to spend 5 days there on the beach and relax on "Fiji time"...something that had been lacking the past few weeks. The first few days the weather was great and I was snorkelling and kayaking and lying in the sun. Then the weather turned and the island got slammed by a cyclone with the heaviest downpours I have seen in a while...
Fiji is not the cheapest place and represents little value for money, so I was not that keen to stay too long anyway. Some locals stole a few of my T-shirts from the washing line, which was quite annoying considering I hadn't brought that many with me...what was worse for me though was that among them were two really nice ones that Nuria had bought me before I left. Now Fiji was starting to get on my nerves, so I was not too sad about getting the boat back to Nadi to fly out and get back to Auckland.
