Beachcomber Island, Fiji
Tag Archives: tropical islands
How to Backpack the Yasawa Islands
January 27, 2010 – 10:01 am
Backpacking the Yasawa Islands in Fiji is a unique experience. It’s not like any backpacking I’ve ever done. I’m not even sure backpacking, with its notions of independent, find your own way travel, is even the right word. Yasawa Island travel is more like an inexpensive organized hop on, hop off tour. Everything is taken [...]
Learning How to Scuba Dive
January 21, 2010 – 3:54 pm
Learning to dive is something I’ve always found excuses to not learn how to do. Something always comes up. I don’t have the money, I don’t have anyone to go with, I am too busy, I’ll learn when I get to Thailand, etc, etc. The list goes on and on. Traveling Fiji with Gary from [...]
Trapped in Paradise
January 18, 2010 – 5:45 pm
Whenever I hear the word “Fiji,” I think of those postcards you see in airports – white sand beaches, palm trees, a little boat, and the bluest, clearest water in the world. It’s my idea of heaven. With Gary from Everything-Everywhere heading to Fiji, I thought there was no better time to cross off one [...]
Ko Phi Phi
June 2, 2009 – 3:39 pm
This is my third time on the island and as I was there I was reminded how much I dislike it. I hate Ko Phi Phi. It’s one of the most overrated islands in all of Thailand. I spent the last four days there with some friends of mine from Bangkok. Originally, we were going [...]