Country Info
- Port-Vila
- Capital
- Vatu (VUV)
- Currency
- 192,910
- Population
- VU
- Country Code
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Vanuatu
Travel Blogs from Vanuatu, Vanuatu
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 ...
Wow it's been a year and I am lazy!
I have gotten so lazy recently that I don't even want to write anything, but it's been a year since I came to Vanuatu so I thought should reflect on some things. I am absolutely having the time of my life. Mostly good times. But even the ...
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 ...
Boom, there goes the Volcano!
The next league was a flight to Southern province, a vulcanic island Tanna. The predominant feature here is Mount Yasur, the only fully active volcano, whose top you can climb on. We decided to stay close by at at a Yacht Club. Whatever ...
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
... of the road is what ever nature gives you, regardless of how steep it can be. Big pot holes everywhere. Otherwise Vanuatu looks like a very hilly, lush tropical forest. We got another surprise welcome at mangaliliu village. some local ...
The Spirit of Santo
The next day our guide picked up at 9 o'clock sharp, and together with a quintet of adventure seeking Aussies, drove us through town, past a disused US military airstrip, and into the heart of the island’s interior. As we drove further into the ...
Back to Vila
... began, we found ourselves back on a plane and heading home. Our holiday may have only lasted a week but the memories of Vanuatu and its people left indelible imprints in our hearts. A trip to Vanuatu is like stepping back in time, an opportunity for one ...
Snorkling, shopping and a tsunami warning.
Today, when i got up to the top deck of the ship, heading for breakfast, my glasses and then the camera lens fogged up due to the humidity. It was an overcast but very muggy day, so after breakfast i put lots of sunscreen on and got off the ship. I had ...
May 20, 2009
Vanuatu Experience
I hopped off the ship at Port Vila to check out the local markets before I headed off to breakfast. As soon as I exited through the dock gates there were hundreds of taxi drivers waiting to get there first customers for the day. The markets were all the ...
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 ...
Complacency
... close to 3 post graduate engineering degrees, but if I am finding some of the problems challenging what are the odds of a Vanuatu 4th grader being able to understand and solve the problem? I have repeatedly gone over some of the ...