On the way there

Air Pacific flies direct Tokyo to Nadi every day.

Getting there is not really half the fun. It’s not really much fun at all.

Traveling to Namena from Tokyo is quite a trek. An 8 hour “red eye” flight to Nadi on Air Pacific, Fiji’s national airline. Follow this by an hour on a tiny plane to Savusavu. Then a 90 minute boat trip across 25 miles of choppy sea to Namena’s dock.

This Sun Air plane was like a minivan with wings.

Transstar Charters, owned and operated by Terry and Davina, was the final leg of the trip to Namena.

I was exhausted, even though we weren’t doing anything but sitting and waiting. We arrived safely after about 15 hours of non-stop “getting there” and settled in for a week of “being there.”

Posted by kuri at October 07, 2004 08:22 AM