Fiji Day 22

This morning I got up and helped with pancakes. I stirred up the batter for Auntie Salah and we started cooking. Everyone got a couple pancakes then we ran out of propane, so that was a bummer. The Nazeil and Laura came by and picked us up to go into Nadi, we started at the Hindu temple where we went in and prayed for the lost people there and prayed against the idol and demon worship. It was a sad and heavy time. After that we went into Nadi on a scavenger hunt. We got points for getting to know people and taking pictures of different foods and souvenir type items. Then we took a cab over to McDonalds. My team got second place, which was fine. First place got McFlurries. Then we came back to the farm changed clothes and headed out on our hike. We met up with a local who would be our guide his name was Esa, he was pretty cool, we were laughing that we brought like backpacks with gear and water ect, he had a knife and an apple haha. Also he was wearing flip flops. He quickly took them off and went barefoot though. We went through a river first in which Snodgrass fell and was being swept away by the river, so I threw my pole up to our guide and he held it out for Snodgrass to pull him back over, it wasn’t a dangerous size river he just might have been swept down a hundred yards or so. We were all carrying our backpacks over our heads, unfortunately I thought my go pro was recording, but I missed the first river crossing. Then we hiked up a ways where we got some guavas, a fruit with a pinkish red center and a lot of seeds, tastes good. Then we journeyed into the rainforest it was muddy and slippery but we were having a blast. Then we came up to a large rock that we climbed up on top of, from there we had a view of the whole valley area, we could see the farm and the airport, and even the next island over. Then we began our descent, on the back down we went by a stream where we could drink fresh water, it began to rain, but none of us really cared, we had already walked through a river and deep mud, we were about as wet as we were going to get. Then we passed a sugar cane field so we cut some cane and snacked on that. We then came to a new part of the river where it was a little deeper and we had to walk upstream a little ways. We all made it, after we got our bags across we messed around in the river, trying to swim against the current and pushing each other, it was fun. We passed some pigs in a pen, which smelled terrible, not surprisingly, and then we came up to the Muslim school, which is the turn off to head back to oasis farm. We thanked our guides and gave them some money, then a big 18 wheeler pulls up with a bulldozer on the back, so Giovanni asks them if we could ride on the back until our turnoff, they agree and we all jump on, it was hilarious at the turn, they didn’t really stop, but they had to slow down enough to turn we just jumped off. We walked it the rest of the way in got showered, up, clean clothes and some warm chicken soup in our bellies for dinner.