We had to pay to get into the park, but because we are students, we only had to pay FJ$1 instead of the normal FJ$5 price that is charged to foreigners. The guy was a little surprised when he found out we were local students. It's nice to be local here, because there are local discounts for pretty much all of the fun stuff we want to do.
The "trek" through the park was really more of a leisurely walk... There were pretty well maintained paths that took us through the forest to the creek, which we then followed all the way down. We started out at the Upper Pools, where we took a quick dip under the waterfall, then continued all the way down to the Lower Pools where the rope swing was. We ran into some of our friends down there, and there were a lot of local boys doing cool tricks off the rope swing. Of course I tried it out. I didn't do any cool tricks or anything, but my flatmate Abby said that I looked really graceful going off of it, so that's something. There are apparently some other waterfalls back in the forest, so we plan to go back sometime to explore a little further.
On Sunday, a big group of us, 13 in all, went zip lining. We got a good discount because we are students and there was a big group of us. There were 8 different zip lines, the longest of which was 220 feet I think. They basically just went from tree to tree in the jungle. It was awesome. I just wish it would have been longer. They said they are building a new line that is going to be 450 feet long and the guides also recommended that we come back to do it at night with a full moon, so we are thinking about going back to do the long one at nighttime. It was a little pricey; the whole thing, transportation included was about 45 US dollars, but I think it was well worth it.
Don't have too much fun. love ya, us.
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