Oct 27 2009
Bula Fiji!
Fijian beach - photo by Meghan
The freezing weather of New England this October has led my mind to stray to better days and warmer climes. About this time three years ago, I was fortunate enough to find myself lying on a deserted tropical beach, befriending locals, and running around without electricity or running fresh water.
What drew me to Fiji was, of course, the tropical weather, white sand beaches, and palm trees, but what really interested me was the culture. Fiji is a country comprised of hundreds of small islands, some of the more remote of which house tribal populations. The last reported case of cannibalism, historically a tradition among some of the Fijian peoples, was in 1994.
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