Globe Trotting Tribe

Day 1:  After getting of the flight, we took a bus and then a boat to the island where we were going to stay at. There were 4 kids and 1 adult on the boat and the adults name was Josh. The kids looked very excited about are arrival. We walked through a village where I could tell was very different then Vancouver. Everyone was saying "Bula!", which meant hello in Fijian, and everyone looked so happy! We arrived at our home and a lady greeted us and said her name was Ethe. She said that she would be making are meals for the days that we were staying there. She gave us a tour of the house, and then we ate lunch. For lunch we had noodles, rice, and plantain. After the meal are family went snorkeling and saw some really cool fish and coral! It was definitely the most amazing coral I have ever seen in my life. Time flied so fast it was already dinner time but it only felt like we were snorkeling for 1 hour! For dinner we ate the same fish we saw in the reefs! Ethe said that Moses, ...

Remote Village Life in the South Pacific Dec. 12 - 16, 2023 Our travel adventure started in a place where the lifestyle and physical setting couldn't be more opposite than the Vancouver life we're used to.  After traveling 28 hours (including a 10-hour layover in San Fran where Dave & Davie enjoyed the 49ers vs. Seahawks game, and Simone and I spent the day in the city), we landed in Nadi in the heat and humidity, made our way to the ferry terminal and caught the Yasawa Flyer ferry northbound about 2 hours. Unsure of what would happen when we arrived at Wayasewa Island, we were pleasantly surprised when a man and a bunch of boys (which we would learn later were our host and his sons/nephews), came to get us from the ferry in their own outboard-powered boat. We spent the next five days in Namara village (population approx 100-125, depending on who you ask) with Ece (pron. "Ethe"), Josh, and their three sons (Moses, 12; Manna, 11; Jim, 10) in a "homestay" ...