Fiji & New Zealand

Made it up Savusavu.

There is limited wifi here and little signal. There is only one room in which wifi is available.

It's raining here. Stops occasionally but then starts up again.

Arrived to Wasawasa where I am staying just in time for my previously scheduled massage. So after checking in, I took a van over to the Namale Spa. It's very beautiful....

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January 15th, 6:30 am
Next day. Good morning.

We're doing a cleanse here, so there is regular fresh beverages being served: celery and lemon juice, broths and smoothies. I had a large beautiful salad yesterday for lunch with sprouts, avocado, almonds, cucumber and tomato with lemon juice and a bit if olive oil for dressing.

The sessions (that went until 10:30 pm last night) are about nutrition, detoxing, and good health principles... the 7 channels of elimination... things that I've known since I was 15. They are a huge propronent of colonics. In fact, Tony's story is mine. He had horrible absessed acne and colonics completely healed it. My acne as a teenager wasn't quite that bad, but it was bad, worse than any of my peers. I tried everything even 6 months of antibiitics, putting clay from Georgia on my face, drinking hot lemon water every morning, Retin A which burned my face off. Nothing helped. Until colon cleansing.

It's hilarious to meet people here, especially some of the men, who are having colonics for the first time and then talking about it. So funny! People are getting really excited about colonics over here. Mine is tomorrow morning.

Yesterday's massage was the "Cagi (Thangi) Air Balancing Treatment". It was 2 hours long and there was a salt scrub, skin brushing, liberal amounts of oil dripping down my sides, hot stones, massage, a masque, a steam tent, a cooling facial masque, then a wipe down.

The room at the Namale spa was traditional and gorgeous. The ceilings are made of bamboo and thatch and tied together with twine. It is about 30 feet tall and has lights shining on it highlighting the beautiful wood.

On the tile floor beneath my face cradle was a black stone bowl with floating hibiscus flowers. There was a second table with another woman being massaged there behind the partition.

The room was open to the outside with a view of the ocean and the constant sounds of the ocean crashing below. The rain hitting the tin roof would vary from light to heavy. When the heavy rain came in, the ocean crashed harder and louder and the room cooled down significantly.

After my massage I found a shower outside on the lovely deck overlooking the ocean. There was a large bowl of floating flowers on the floor. The shower had a black lava stone wall on one side, so there was at least some semblance of privacy. The water was hot and it felt good to be clean.

I later met the woman who was next to me in the room, Leigh from Dallas, originally from London, is 53 and having her 5th midlife crisis. She up and quit her pharma aestetics sales job in October and is looking for her next thing. She's thinking like I'm thinking for my next life, but doesn't have any magical ideas dropped to her yet. Leigh showed me around as I was brand new here. We had lunch together.

Evidently I do have signal in my room, for now. It's not raining this morning yet. Very cloudy. I hear a bird every now and then which gives me hope of sunshine.

There is a 7am waterfall hike soon and I'm thinking i will go. It was weather permitting so last night i was thinking i wouldn't go but i think I'm changing my mind. I've got 20 min to get ready.

The water from the faucets occasionally turns brown and the pressure goes up and then down to a trickle. Brushing teeth with bottled water. The toilet water is brown. They say they are testing it and it's safe for bathing.

I'm hoping to get more pictures today, and I do return to Namale for another spa treatment this afternoon.

It's now raining so I think the waterfall hike is off.

My hair is a mess from the massage, shower, air drying, ball cap, rain and humidity and then sleeping... so i think I'll try to tame it before I go find some celery juice or whatever they are serving this morning... as long as it's not Kool-aid 😅Leia mais

With better weather the waters are getting clearer