South Pacific 2005 > Fiji

Our visits to the interior began with a kava ceremony. Leone Sarogo Dradra is Savunamatelaya, the chief of the small village near the waterfall. Here he is on his 75th birthday. Kava is a powder from a plant which is dissolved in water and drunk from bowls with traditional exchanges of claps and greetings. We didn't feel any effects, but we've read that someone got a DUI in California after having had kava.
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