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
Jul 04, 2011
3 days of walkabout in Lamap
... . Basically PC drops us off at our permanent site. My site is in the town of Lamap, south Malakula. It is only 35min flight from Port Vila via a twin otter plane. The purpose of the 'walkabout' is to get to know the community that we will live in and ...
Condor wants to have sex with my Audrey
Actually it's both Condor and his twin brother. Condor is a rooster that usually hangs out around my village. He has a very distinctive combination of feather colors and patterns and his physique is impressively built, for a local rooster. His ...
got to my site
... in a similar coconut cream sauce and rice with bananas. The fish was SO good. Food wise, I think nobody is hungry in Vanuatu, and certainly not in the Lamap area. Nutritional balance wise, it's not good at all, but that's another topic for ...
Samarbete med din sida
Hejsan, Låt mig ta tillfället i akt och presentera mig själv. Jag heter Lisa Andersson och jag arbetar med http://www.weblosning.com, snabba och lätta webblösningar. Jag har ett urval av olika webbsidor, i många olika ...
Vanuatu -- Second attempt
... Monique ferries me around from the CMI's offices where I get my money back. With that in my hand we go to Air Vanuatu and book a flight to Port Vila at 08:45 the following day. In the afternoon we are invited at Annick for tea and I hear of old ...
Welcome to Vila
... the islands you will find some of the biggest and warmest smiles on the face of the planet. Our adventure in Vanuatu took us first to the capital Port Vila. Vila, as it is affectionately known, is located on the island of Efate, the main island for ...
first day of village life
Today we had our first day of training in mangaliliu. The first 2 sessions were language and they were pretty useful. The highlight was that the training was conducted outdoors right on the beach! We were literally 10 ft from the water. What a class ...
Exploring Port Vila
... " Mother Hubbard" style dresses & are quite large people. They are arm & friendly & life moves pretty slowly. Back in Port Vila we had lunch a great french bakery & tried to learn some local language. Gail took Brad & I ...
Week in Vanuatu
Flew to Vanuatu with Mark & Leigh & Mitch & Nath. Met Brad over there as he had been building a school for the last 10 days with a group of guys from church. It was amazing how quickly they had built it as it was 2 levels and had a separate ...
X'mas in Lamap
... meat in this area as there are hundreds of pigs, cows roaming freely everywhere. (way less pigs now because they shipped 300+ to Vila for sale) In the developed world if people want meat they just go to a supermarket to buy it. Here you have to slaughter ...
Four days in Vanuatu
... plane. First observation, gees louise it's hot!!! Once inside the airport, you can't help but see four or five traditionally dressed Vanuatu men playing music. One guy is bent very awkwardly over what I presume is an old soap box turned one string ...
Port Vila: only 3 hours flight but another world
... one remote place altogether as we soon found out. Our first league was to the main administrative island Efate and the capital Port Vila. There are some 6 international flights coming here every day so one can assume that is not spoilt by tourism. And ...
Jul 01, 2011
Vanuatu Family
In August 2007, 14 members of our family spent a glorious week in Vanuatu, Swimming, snorkelling, sightseeing, golfing, and generally immersing our selves in the local culture. Every person, from the 18 month old to ourselves (the grandparents) had a ...
Jun 26, 2011
Hanging out round the lagoon
Day 9 and 10 Pacific Lagoon The pack up this morning was a bit easier as we just needed to catch a bus across to our new accommodation Pacific Lagoon which as its name suggests is on the lagoon frontage. The place is just along from Le Lagoon the ...
A Day in Port Vila
We had intended to have a day of rest today but when we went to the desk to book a tour the attendant wasn't there so we gathered up some more brochures and had a look at them in our room. We decided on a tour we liked, "Round Efate Island Tour", and ...
A Rest Day in Port Vila
As most of Port Vila is closed today, being Sunday, we also decided on a day of rest. We did walk down to the large supermarket, only five minutes walk from The Melanesian, which we had spotted yesterday from the mini bus, to buy some bread for lunch and ...
Exploring the Museum and Local Area
Having chatted to the girl at the desk about the museum and waiting 'til 9 o'clock to set out, I thought we were going to the Museum. Apparently Malcolm didn’t realise this and so hadn’t brought his camera so we took the back road into town ...
Another Relaxing Day in Port Vila
Today was to be a rest day but as we needed bread for lunch we decided to walk down to the main shops. This time we bought some boardies for Malcolm. There was a cruise ship in "The Pacific Sun" so the shops were fairly busy. We ...
Day 2 - Iririki Island and Fruit market
The ferry to Iririki Island is 1,500vatu pp, this enables you to got to and from the island as many times as you'd like for a 24hr period, the ferry runs 24hrs a day. Plus you can order a meal at the cafe on the island and the 1,500vatu will be deducted ...
Cruising is traveling to Paradise to fix the boat
... cannibals of days past carved poor Mr Dillon's outline in stone before they cooked and ate their first missionary. We arrived at Port Vila in the early morning, riding a gentle breath of wind into the flat waters of the harbour. We dropped ...
vanuatu
it did not have the nicest town centre but could see how the local people lived a bit. Went to Hideaway Island for lunch and to spend the day. There was good snorkelling here and there was the world's first underwater post ...
Adventures in Vila
... French and English both occupied Vanuatu until Vanuatu gained it’s independence on June 30, 1980. Also, another crazy fact about Vanuatu is that cannibalism (yes cannibalism!) was last practised only in 1973 on the island next to Wala. However the ...