Chantillys On The Bay Port Vila

... This lifestyle still prevails here on the islands, arranged marriages, grass skirts, males buying wives for a certain number of pigs... But they no longer practice cannibalism, or so they tell the tourists - :-D<br><br>I hope that you enjoy the slideshow of images from my day. There is a button on the slideshow window to enlarge the window to full screen, try clicking that button for a better viewing size.<br><br>-T<br>

... tourist cultural feast), all which came at a ridiculously high price (Vanuatu is NOT cheap, be warned)! We also did a fair amount of wandering, as Vanuatu is a quite amazing looking place. Port Vila is the biggest town on the most populated island, and it's so small and unassuming...most locals houses are little better than shed type efforts, and the whole place has a charismatic Carribean type feel to it (bizarre, I know, but it does!) One ...

... We did get up to the next village, port somewhere, where we could even have stayed a night. I asked around but the owner of the hut you could stay in was not around. And it looked like you shared ablutions with half the village. There were some limits on how rough we could go unfortunately. I would have liked to carry on around to the big bay on the north east side, and even to have done some hiking, but I do admit it would have been pretty hard going. We were on a ...

Yesterday we learned how to round up the chicken, kill it, and gut it. It was the most interesting/fun/scary/cruel activity I have done so far since training started. It was interesting and fun because we were split up into groups of 6-7 and the mamas pointed at a chicken for each group as our target. We are then supposed to work as a team and try to round up the chicken and one of us would some how grab it and ...

... Vila. I believe the island is more developed now with apartments etc., so it was great to see it in it's more natural state. The Resort restaurant and bar was very good quality and great food. We enjoyed snorkelling off the rocks and beach of Snorkellers Cove - saw a big Lion Fish - impressive! It's fairly damaged from anchors, etc. We had a great time sailing on of the Resort catamarans ... went way out towards the sea and ...

... Vanuatu The Air Vanuatu's only 737 gets loaded on time and as we go through the Xray machine I approach the Captain and First Officer who are going through the same process; I produce the photocopy of my JAR licence - permanently attached to my passport - and I ask if it would be possible to visit the cockpit during the flight. Being invited for the take off also means that I get to stay for the whole trip, breakfast included. Memories flood back at ...

... Except of course for the fact that the plane we got on was actually supposed to land in FIJI!!!!!!!! Everything was going as usual on a budget airline. We refused to buy anything out of principle and were happy to read/chat/eat munchies as it was a relatively short flight. We did see beautiful islands with sandy beaches however the closer we got to the airport the weather got worse and worse. We circled a couple of times and then ...

Hi everyone, It's been a while since my last update but I've been busy trying to sort myself out for my 6 weeks here. I've some interesting stories to tell... Life here has to be the slowest pace you ever encounter. Everything is "tomorrow...." Etc. No one worries about anything and if you try to get anything done you will fall flat on your face. At long last I have managed to rent a place to live. The claims of accommodation provided by the school ...

... area of jungle where the ground was alive with hermit crabs. The bathrooms were alive with geckos... big ones. We snorkelled for a while, which was pretty cool - saw a good amount of fish - but the water was much colder than I expected... it was refreshing, but nothing like Thailand or Mexico or Costa Rica or the Caribbean at all. We changed then went down to the restaurant on the beach and the evening turned fabulous again. The guy who runs the hotel was a chef ...

... of the dry season this wouldn't bode well. After playing the role of estate agent, our driver dropped us off at the Cascade waterfall. It proved an arduous hike up to the top of the waterfall but the sight that welcomed us made the sweat and toil worthwhile. Starved of waterfalls in the UK I'll never grow tired of seeing them while we-re away. Other stops included a 'traditional' village where if you photographed a ...