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Fiji - Market Tour and Cooking Class This was one of those experiences, that will likely be one of the highlights of our trip. I’m not exactly sure how I found these folks, it might have been through TripAdvisor. Flavours of Fiji is the only cooking school in Fiji. It’s has been operating for six years. We were picked up at our hotel by Ajay and Leah for the first part of our day; a trip to the market.

Day one; Settling in and Cultural Dinner Our flight from LAX was uneventful. It was a bit long, but one advantage of leaving L.A. At 11:00 P.M., is that the entire flight is over night. We did get a bit of rest (as much as one can get in an economy seat), and arrived in Fiji at about 6:00 A.M. Deanna had heard that customs and immigration could be long, but that wasn’t the case for us.

Travel Day to Fiji We’re off! It’s a great way to celebrate Deanna’s birthday with our month long trip to Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. We decided to break up the long flight a bit by stopping in Fiji. It’s only 11.5 hours from L.A. Instead of 13 or so to Australia. Our friend RIck drove us to the airport, which from our place in the country is no small ask.

Fiji, New Zealand and Australia Deanna and I are taking advantage of the fact I’m not working at the moment to head to a couple of countries in Oceania. This trip has been high on the bucket list for a while and we’re heading off for much of the month of April. Deanna did a bunch of research and had a general idea of the kinds of things we wanted to do.