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Here is an extract from their email received last
week:
We have just came back from Fiji and I would like to share with you some pictures. I promised Emma from Namuamua to send a copy for her and I will do that for sure. We would like to thank you and all fantastic people we met in villages for the best honeymoon I would never change for any 5 star hotel. Believe it or not but more our stories and memories are from Namuamua than from wedding. Staying with Emma was incredible, also it showed us how spoiled we are in our life. I have never been so happy sitting on the floor, eating by hands and play with fantastic kids. Well, I cant forget about kava ;-) lots of kava....
Namatakula was fantastic as well and Rosie is the best cook I have ever met. I wish we could spend more time there.
If you need any help or anybody wants to keep in touch with us to find out about our experience please feel free to write to us. I will put some stories on my website soon. Hopefully more people will find out about home stay in Fiji
Regards
Alicja and Dave Email at this link
Full story with more images of their homestay at this link
Scott's eighth book
"Children of the Mist, the lost tribe
of South Africa" will be launched
during a trip to South
Africa in October.
Image right: Scott with John and Cyril de Bruin, the leaders of the small Griqua community at Kokstad.
The book follows thirty years of research into this extraordinary multiracial S African tribe which has now been "scattered to the winds" by the joined forces of early British Governors, the Boers and the more recent Apartheid regime.
Last September Scott travelled to S Africa to meet with Griqua people across the country - more at this link.
While in S Africa Scott hopes to expand his S African arm of village homestays in locations like Kwazulu and the Cape.
The infrastructure for the online globalisation of village homestays is now taking shape. We have secured the relevant homestay domains for all major continents and are now looking for agents to assist us in getting homestays going in countries all over the world. The benefits to the Fijian community, where it all started, speaks for itself. The entire community in participating villages is better off and the numbers of visitors, although limited in number at any one time, continue to grow as this exciting project gains support as more and more travellers look for something different while on holiday.
If you know of someone who would like to work with is in establishing a region under Global Village Homestays please email us.
Take care
Global Village Homestays
Scott Balson