Fijian Night

Twice a week the staff who work on Mana Island backpackers, put on a little evening entertainment, Fijian night.
Now, I'm not going to go into too much detail as I have the second show on video. But its definitely one for the ladies! Muscley, toned fellas, covered in baby oil doing traditional Fijian dancing (I think you get my point). We have photos which will be on the online photo album but it doesn't really do it justice.

We did try Kava (Fijian drink), its supposed to have some narcotic effect if drank in large quantities. I had 2 high tides and Alan had 3 high tides (a high tide is a large cup) and our tongues went a bit numb/furry.
Kava doesn't taste very nice, it looks like muddy water and tastes a bit like cold tea with a herbally aftertaste. We were all made to sit in a circle, whilst Jim ( I think the manager) put the Kava powder into what I hope was a clean teatowel and soaked it in cold water. This made the Kava. He told us we each had to start with a high tide, before drinking it we had to shout Bula! and clap once, after drinking it straight down we had to clap 3 times. If you forgot to shout Bula! before drinking you had to drink another high tide again. Luckily me and Alan never forgot to shout Bula!

After the Kava tasting we were roped into doing the paper dance and the Limbo. The paper dance was hilarious - me and Alan had to dance on a piece of newspaper without touching the floor. Everytime the music stopped the piece of newspaper was folded in half, forcing us to dance even closer without touching the floor. At one point I was standing on Alans feet, but we're not very co-ordinated so we soon touched the ground and were out. Andrew and Andy did better because they piggybacked.

Alan did much better at the Limbo, he won a bottle of beer for his efforts.