fiji
May 28, 2009
- Fijians don't have a word for stress.I just watched five strong men bury a gigantic fish and packages of breadfruit bound with coconut bark in a pit of hot stones, then cover it to cook under huge leaves of the elephant ear tree. When they finished, they all cried, "Bula!" which is the Fijian word for hello and about everything else joyous. This "lavoro," or feast, is given ...
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February 19, 2009
- I'm in Fiji this morning for work. It's beautiful, balmy, welcoming and about as far from the two feet of snow we left behind as any place we could find on this green earth. But the swimming and the sunshine and the abundance of the Fijian people and their lush landscape isn't the best part of this visit. It's this: Every single person we meet-from the village elder to the Australian footballers ...
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January 5, 2009
- Avalon Travel Publishing has released of the 8th edition of Moon Fiji, the original travel guide to the 322-island Fiji archipelago. Since 1985, Moon Fiji has been the leading travel guidebook to Fiji. Author David Stanley began writing about the South Pacific in 1979, and over the years tens of thousands of Pacific travelers have used his guides to Fiji, Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa, Micronesia, and the ...
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