Last Day in Fiji

Our last day in Fiji, we started out the day with a walk to the Garden of the Sleeping Giant. The hotel told us that it was a "half hour walk". Well, an hour and a half and 5 or so kilometers later, we arrived there. It was a nice walk, but it did get a little hot at the end. The garden was closing in half an hour, but we quickly got to enjoy it. Oddly, it was started by Raymond Burr as a home for his orchid collection. It was lovely.

As we were leaving, we ran into some other guests from our hotel, an English man (who reminded us of Hannibal the Cannibal Lecter) and two Philippino sisters, Raquel and Lisa. We hopped into their cab for a ride back to the hotel. We grabbed our bags and went into town with Raquel and Lisa. We all went to the Hindu temple together. Jigar and I had gone the day before and they told us to come back for the wedding the next day. We missed the wedding but we had an amazing lunch! It was neat to see the bride and groom with their garlands still on and we saw the mandap. It reminded us of our wedding day, just a couple of weeks ago. We made an offering at the temple and spent some time there. It is so tranquil.

We ended the day by watching our last day Fijian sunset from the beach near our new hotel. It wasn't the same as the sunsets on Waya Island, but it was beautiful nonetheless. This was an amazing first week. Fiji was so relaxing that one week here feels like months. We couldn't have asked for a more wonderful honeymoon week!