Country Info
- Port-Vila
- Capital
- Vatu (VUV)
- Currency
- 192,910
- Population
- VU
- Country Code
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Vanuatu
Travel Blogs from Vanuatu, Vanuatu
Jul 04, 2011
3 days of walkabout in Lamap
This week is our 'walkabout' week. 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 ...
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 ...
hat island
Today we went to hat island that is 20min boat ride off the coral beach of Mangaliliu. We can see hat island everyday and we were supposed to go there a few weeks ago but things in PC almost never works out on schedule so we get to do it today. It also ...
rain and appetite
... or the day before. In some ways I do wish that they bio-genetically alter some of the fruits so I can have them year round. Vanuatu's pineapple is absolutely world class. But the season is only about a month long. So for 11 month out of the year you ...
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
... those asleep. Was it a bug on the roasted nuts ? was it a heat stroke ? No idea, but one starts burgeoning : is Vanuatu really for me ? To stay would mean looking for air conditioned accommodation to rent and hunting the shady side of streets. ...
Welcome to Vila
... by ethnic Chinese and the driver even pointed in the direction of a little Chinatown in the city. Our accommodation was the Sebel Vanuatu, a business type hotel which looked out of sorts in the city centre. Towering over all other buildings at an ogre-ly ...
All Hail The Mighty Yasur
... ’s first and only volcano post – a blatant and obvious publicity stunt meant to draw tourists and generate more revenue for Vanuatu Post, but there was definitely a certain novelty about it. “Hi Mom, I hope you can read this card. ...
Serenity
... for the 3 day journey back to Sydney. The clouds were closing in again and it started to rain just as we were leaving Vanuatu. I haven't yet managed to see a proper sunset because of the clouds - and I did say I'd like to see a sunrise but I ...
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
... looked at the school site for the new building & started to make plans for it to happen in September this year. The Vanuatu women wear large colourful " Mother Hubbard" style dresses & are quite large people. They are arm & friendly & ...
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 ...
Aneityum
... begin it at the end?' Francoise de Maintenon On Sunday morning we arrived in Aneityum (or Anatom) the first island of the Vanuatu chain of islands. It is considered one of the outlying islands, a rather unknown place, except for cruiseships who visit ...
X'mas in Lamap
Merry X'mas. Yeah whatever....I don't really celebrate X'mas but I look forward to the celebrations because it usually includes large quantities of food, specifically meat. My host family is catholic so they went to this catholic church service on X'mas ...
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
... in retrospect to the Finnish one (except the rain) so we decided to do something even more out of ordinary a set asail with Vanuatu as a target. For those who don't have a single clue what and where Vanuatu is then here is small intro: a pacific ...
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 ...
An easy life isn't all that bad!
... nbsp; Luganville, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu Out on deck when we are in Segond Channel between low, mangrove covered islands to the left, ...
Jun 26, 2011
In the Bush
'The earth laughs in flowers and butterflies' Ralph Waldo Emerson Chief Nelson's daughter Agnes, her husband Mac and the boys Junior and Martin took us up the mountain to the family garden. I think they had their first chuckle when we ...
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 ...
random thoughts of the day
I just realized it's the double 10 day today. (10th day of 10th month). It is the national day of China/Taiwan where I originally came from. It is the day the founding fathers of China/Taiwan successfully overthrew the last emperor from the Ching ...
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 ...