Country Info
- Port-Vila
- Capital
- Vatu (VUV)
- Currency
- 192,910
- Population
- VU
- Country Code
Port Vila Slideshow
Port Vila
Travel Blogs from Port Vila, Vanuatu
A Rest Day
Today we were unsure what to do so we went into town to see if the weather was OK to go to Hideaway. The wind towers indicated that it probably wasn't worth the bus trip and entry to Hideaway Island so just shopped for a while before returning to The ...
Loving my island life
Now, its no doubt that life in the islands is so much more relaxed, and easy going. I am absolutely loving it! :) I don't think I've ever been as happy in my life as I have been in the last 6 months of being back here. (Apart from maybe when I was a kid ...
Snorkelling for 3 hours straight!
Woke up had breakfast, after breakfast felt very sick, must be the malaria tablets! Stopped taking them. Got taxi to Port Vila, went to fruit markets and shops. Took in all the culture, i noticed that Vanutuans love their families! You'll see families ...
village feast for john roberts
Today we had the 5-day ceremony in Mangaliliu for the passing of the late PCV John Roberts who was tragically killed in an accident. After the customary announcements by the village chiefs and PC representatives we proceeded to a feast. This is a ...
Lukim yu
... good clean it gets a power hosing (... I was told and so much want to believe that to be true). Vanuatu is all about seeing the islands, so usually we minimize our time in Vila and tend to provisioning, internet time, exercise, ...
Surprise Island
Hi, A nine year old kid can paddle faster on a canoe better than I can. Kids play with machetes and get coconuts from trees. Tanna, ...
My camera carked it...
So....just to keep you all updated a little...my camera decided to die last weekend. I'm not happy at all :( especially which means I can no longer take my photo's of the day until I get it fixed or replaced. Hopefully will be very soon. Stay tuned... ...
STONEHENGE
WELL I FINALLY MADE IT TO LONDON THIS MORNING. WHILE TAXIING OUT OF FORT WAYNE MY PLANE BROKE DOWN AND I THOUGHT I WASN'T EVEN GOING TO BE ABLE TO LEAVE. BUT I GOT HERE. WENT TO STONEHENGE FIRST, QUITE UNIMPRESSIVE, AND THEN TO GLASTONBURY TOR. IT IS ...
Day 6
Mystery Island, Vanuatu. Spent most of the day snorkelling along the reef and shopping at the island markets. Tried not to get eaten by the ...
just a couple photos
nothing too interesting, just a couple volcano pictures from vanuatu, which i never really talked about. documentation is a pretty full-time ...
A Big Birthday in Vanuatu
... we had stirfry chicken, fish curry, rice, sweet potato and banana. Finally we stopped at the beach where Survivor Vanuatu was filmed. As well as these stops we occasionally stopped for photos at spots of interest (biggest banyan tree, coconut ...
Relaxing in Port Vila
After breakfast we wandered down into town, mainly to get some bread for lunch. We bought a pineapple at the markets, some boardies and shirt for Malcolm and a bolt of fabric to make tablecloths for home. We also got some rice and sweet and sour ...
Erakor Island
Today we caught the bus to the Erakor Resort Wharf to catch the free ferry to Erakor Island. The bus stop is right outside The Melanesian and the wharf only about ten minutes away. The ferry runs 24 hours a day to and from the resort. We spent the day ...
funeral
When someone in the village dies, by local custom everything stops, no working or loud noise allowed to respect the dead, for 5 days. It was my aunt that died and I have never met her but I was told she suffered from terminal kidney or liver disease. ...
A last few peaceful days
... reason for this was a holiday before Anna heads off to varsity and it's certainly been a big success. Tips for travelers to Vanuatu Keep your expectations reasonable and stay where you can with local run places, they can not do too much for you. Some ...
mangaliliu training village
... tv series survivor Vanuatu was filmed a few years ago. For the first time we get to see what Vanuatu looks like outside port vila. First impressions: The roads are absolutely terrible. The grade of the road is what ever nature gives you, ...
Back to Vila
That evening we flew back to Port Vila. It was approaching the end of our vacation and we were definitely on a high after our experiences in Tanna and Santo. But before flying back home we made time to finally visit the Mele Mele Cascades, and we were ...
Snorkling, shopping and a tsunami warning.
... back to my cabin grabbed my stuff and headed back to the shore tours tent to pick up my next tour. This tour was the ultimate port villa discovery tour. Our tour guide picked us up in this bus and we headed out to start the tour. Fist up was this kind ...
Vanuatu Experience
... everyday lives. The chief told us great stories about they ancestral guardians and ways of there people. The tour bus got back to port Vila and I read about a scuba dive in the reef near Hideaway Island. It was a short boat ride to the island. They ...
Tam Tam
This photo was taken in my garden. It has been absolutely POURING rain the last couple of weeks, and I noticed this little Tam Tam in my garden. To me, he looks like he is trying to escape the rain by hiding under the plants. ...
Flash flooding
Ok, so for today I need to throw in 2 photos. One because of the complete monsoonal weather that's been going on, the first photo has been taken right outside my office door, and cars trying to pass through the floods. Now, to understand the second one, ...
Diving, Teaching and Kava!
... C. My little home is very quaint, it was built a few years ago by a retired Aussie and his wife Annie, who is a native Vanuatu girl. They built in to live in originally but there was such a need for housing for volunteers that they decided to expand and ...
