Fighting fire Fiji style

Our host's son thought he would light his first fire today to clear some farm land. The wind decided to pick up and the fire spread across half the island. We had to run up the hill with machetes and water buckets to prevent it reaching the village. The smoke was pretty bad so we had to retreat and hope it didn't reach the village.

A couple of hours later we were able to rest and we were treated to a free lunch of noodles and kasava.Читать далее