Port Vila, Vanuatu Travel Blogs

VANUATU
Apr 11, 2006 (7 photos)

... with 2 education systems, 2 police forces and even 2 currencies operating side by side. As we walk around the capital, Port Vila, we see evidence of this shared colonial influence. The French seem to have dominated the culinary heritage, but the local ...

Sailing north through tropical Vanuatu
Sep 2, 2003 (5 photos)

... we are once again, another voyage and the ship is a busy place! We will be traveling north through the islands of Vanuatu from Port Vila to Santo. During our four-day layover in Port Vila before commencing this next trip, our port anchor was taken ...

Sailing Fiji to Vanautu by Tall Ship
Aug 16, 2003 (5 photos)

... of the sea escaped leaving us all moaning, ?that was the biggest one yet, why?d you let ?em go?? August 6th, Port Vila, Vanuatu. After customs and immigration cleared us, Voyage crew headed ashore to evaluate what looks to be a busy port. The crew were ...

Boy Meets Ground
Jun 19, 2006

... So I escaped to Erakor Island for the day and lay on the beach in the rain. I hadn't seen any decent souvenirs in Vanuatu but decided a Bislama Bible would be a cool thing to take away. This is a book, representing a religion which has been thrust on ...

Namba Wan Drink Blong Yumi
Jun 13, 2006 (4 photos)

... you're better off. Otherwise, you could find yourself getting depressed or suicidal. Or worse still, getting in to another relationship. Vanuatu seemed an ideal place for me to spend the next couple of weeks. But my first couple of days were spent in ...

Tall Ship exploration of South Pacific Vanuatu
Sep 14, 2003 (5 photos)

... ship journal for the 10 day voyage through central Vanuatu, southbound from Santo through dark and tropical islands to the capital Port Vila: Thea and I headed to the markets on a 0600 hrs inflatable boat from Soren Larsen's anchorage to try and find ...

Sailing the South Seas
Oct 4, 2003 (1 photos)

... then! So it's bye from me for now as I'll be on the high seas. The Tall Ship Soren Larsen moored in Port Vila Harbour, Vanuatu PS - anyone old enough to remember a TV series called the Onedin Line may find that this boat looks somehow familiar, she ...

Birthday
Sep 2, 2003 (2 photos)

... my 26th birthday - certainly very different from previous years. Oh, and I got pissed! Not so different! Day 210 - Port Vila - Vanuatu Back to the town that's feeling increasingly like home but slightly different from the norm has again been the ...

Goodnight Vila
Oct 25, 2003 (15 photos)

... Stop Lodge, Santo Tam Tam Slit Drum, Vanuatu After taking a day off from diving I was back on a plane back to Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu and went to a place called Moso Island to stay at the Tranquility Island Resort - a very apt name as it ...

Port Vila
Sep 2, 2003 (2 photos)

Day 208 - Port Vila Feeling slightly guilty about our lack of exploration of Efate's mainland we commandered a taxi for the day to see what was on offer. We soon managed to ascertain that prime plots of land were temptingly cheap but although the ...

Port Vila
Aug 31, 2003

... I embarrassed ourselves with our efforts on a tennis court and we all managed a walk round Vanuatu's far from bustling capital, Port Vila. The market proved a source of interest as local unidentifiable agricultural produce shared the spotlight with such ...

Port Vila (Diving)
Aug 31, 2003

Day 206 - 207 - Port Vila Vanuatu's main attraction is its diving and given Kirsty and I's eagerness to cram in as much as possible before it gets too cold, the last two days have been organised around this new found hobby. Some of the other islands of ...

Survivor
Apr 14, 2006 (8 photos)

... napkins hoping to fashion myself a makeshift parachute and attempt my own descent into Fiji but to no avail. We arrived in Vanuatu in Port Vila, the capital "city", and we ushered into the airport. Now originally we wanted to find a holiday in Vanuatu ...

The never ending journey
Jun 26, 2007 (2 photos)

... schedule, for the time being. My flight leaving Honiara ended up leaving about 6 hours late which meant I would miss my connection in Port Vila. Again, not a huge deal, gave me a day in a city that I would have otherwise ignored. Here is a lovely view ...

A little more info
Aug 8, 2009

... I am back in the states. It's still cloudy here, so it looks like today will be spent strolling around town. Vanuatu is incredibly expensive. Katie works for the Peace Corp and she said that Vanuatu volunteers get paid more than any other peace corp ...

We found Nemo!
Nov 19, 2007 (5 photos)

... here we are - Hideaway Island Island, Vanuatu (a small island, about 1/2 km sq in size, just a short trip outside the Capital, Port Vila. We are operating officially on Island time! Nothing can be done in a hurry here. For example, we have just this ...

Vanuatu!!!
Jul 7, 2006

... Internation Airport! But if everything works out alright and the plane does not crash on some lonely island ala' Cast Away, I ll be in Port Vila by 1400 and if i am lucky in Santo byt the evening. We'll see if there are any flights to santo available. ...

Vibrant Vanuatu
Feb 16, 2008 (73 photos)

When we arrived in Port Vila airport we were immediately greeted by a local band belting out traditional music with big smiley faces, what a welcome! We were also greeted by a very hot and very steamy climate.... We were picked up at the airport by our ...

Port Vila, Efate
Jul 19, 2006

... date in Vanuatu because if the price and speed of the local internet connections. See here a quick review: The last week in Port VIla was probably the best so far. Sun, beach and great diving. Pictures will follow hopefully some underwater ones as well! ...

Cruise - Mystery Island Vanuatu
Aug 29, 2007

We only had a quick stop here. Lovely spot but Brodie was sick and the weather was bad... !!

I made it to Vanuatu!!
Aug 4, 2009

... to Vanuatu. The time passed reasonably quickly and I was able to get a lot of reading done. So now I am here in Port Vila awaiting orders. Natalie (the person I will be working with from OceansWatch) will call tomorrow with their location and we will then ...

Passing time in Vila...
Aug 5, 2009

... but because I can. Yesterday and today I have passed my time walking around Vila, which is an easy walk from where I am staying. In Vila I have the option to buy as many sarongs and duty free items I could ever want, but since I don't have much money I'm ...

And I'm Off!
Aug 17, 2009

... , and then a ferry to Santo. But I don't think that will be necessary, they seem like really nice people, excited about experiencing Vanuatu. Just so that you won't worry I want you to know that they do have a satelite phone on board, just in case of ...

Navity Island, Yasawa Islands, Fiji
Feb 8, 2005 (5 photos)

The second island that we visited was Navity. We stayed at the Korovou Resort. The burees (Typical Fijian house) had toilet and bathroom. We tried Kava (Typical Fijian drink) for the first time. We also had learned to dance the Fijian style a bit. La ...

Still in Vila
Aug 14, 2009

... wasn't very strong though, so I didn't feel anything more than a few minutes of numb lips. I went with Dorothy and Rose, two ni-vanuatu girls that also live with Jess and Sam. Dorothy is like a nanny to Jess and Sam's 2 and a half month old son, Jackson, ...

Waterfalls
Aug 11, 2009

... Santo. While I am trying to make the most of all of this complete relaxation, I am eager to get things going and to see Vanuatu. Vila is not a bad city, but it could be a city anywhere. I'm ready to really start experiencing more of Vanuatu and to get ...

Tavena Island, Coral View Resort
Feb 6, 2005 (8 photos)

We departed from Denarau Marina on the morning (6 Feb) in the Yasawa Flyer, a big yellow katamaran. It took 4 hours to arrive at Tavena Island, we were supposed to stay at Nanuya Lailai Island at the Sunrise Lagoon Resort, where the blue lagoon was filmed ...

Waiting out the winds in Vanuatu.
Oct 11, 2006 (2 photos)

... at the island if you are travelling through Fiji. It took us three and a half days to sail from Fiji to Port Villa on Efate, Vanuatu. It was quite a frustrating sail as the wind would pick up for several hours and we would be reefed making 8kts ...

Auckland to Vanuatu
Oct 23, 2007 (23 photos)

... home the title and we all got smashed then went dancing! A fab night but meant we overslept our alarm for the plane to Vanuatu - oops!! A mad dash to the airport and we made it in time to fly together. After landing we transferred to our resort and were ...

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Feb 22, 2005 (1 photos)

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