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Category: Fiji

Fiji blog posts offer a glimpse into our stay in this beautiful and very friendly country where we cooked food in a hot spring, assisted another catamaran in distress and tried drinking kava.

Ethical tourism: Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Eight Bathers painting.
June 20, 2023July 27, 2026Lorraine Escher

Ethical Tourism in Fiji: 8 Women, Unequal Worlds

Julia from SV Tribalance inspects her soup as it cooks
May 28, 2023July 25, 2026Lorraine Escher

Savusavu Hot Springs: Cooking Stew in a Geothermal Vent

Lorraine is offered Kava drink from the chief during a Fijian sevusevu welcoming ceremony in Savusavu.
May 26, 2023July 25, 2026Lorraine Escher

Sevusevu Ceremony in Fiji: Reluctant First-Time Kava Drinker

Fierentino Para Anchor: Stopped sailing image
May 24, 2023July 28, 2026Lorraine Escher

Fiorentino Para Anchor Overnight: 60 NM from Savusavu

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