Cook Island dancer
The Pasifika Festival happens once a year.. and every year it's bigger.
The weather held on for it, as we move into autumn it was warm and bright but the morning was cool.
We began at the Cook Island stage (we still have to visit the islands themselves)
Cook Islands cultural dance
Niue was next, as each isalnd has a stage set around the lake at the park. there are only 1400 Niueans here and their enthusiasm was infectious. We thought Greg might be picked to join in at one point!
Niue stage entrance
Niue crafts
Nuie stage
We had lunch at the Fiji stage, pork dumplings (With a difference! Whole garlic cloves were the surprise!) and a curry with bananas - but they didn't taste like any bananas I've ever had?
It brought back memories and we've just booked our next Fiji holiday, so we had to stop and say 'Bula!'
Fiji
Never been to Kiribati before..it is made up of 32 little coral islands and "kiribati" is the local pronunciation of "gilberts" (go figure!)
Kiribati
Kiribati costume
and so we bought a carved and painted lizard from the island crafts on sale.. he still needs a name!
Our lizard that we brought home!
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