Les Alizes Port Vila

... spiritual aura.

From the cascades we moved on to visit a turtle sanctuary. We had expected a full interpretive centre geared for full scale tourism but were disappointed to find that the place looked rather desolate and barren, and aside from us there were only two other tourists. There were about twenty to thirty baby turtles in a small purpose built rectangular basin and another fifteen or so adults in another ...

... be able to send small email updates (please note, if I do not send an update it probably means that I am doing fine and am too busy to write, Not that you should start worrying). I will have internet at the end of the month/beginning of next month when I get to Santo, so I will try to send a complete update then. The couple I will be sailing with are Tom and Ellen Alexander, and their boat is called RasaManis.
Love you, miss you, and keeping you in my thoughts,
Lindsey

... between sellers near each other - best to shop around before you buy anything. Tipping was also welcome at restaurants and with tour guides - even though the tourist guides said this would offend. My only disappointment was the restaurant food - I have to preface this with the fact that I have very high expectations! But we had truly awful Chinese at the Harborview and pretty poor Japanese's at the Vietnamese owned Kan-pai - in their defence both ...

... They would be airborne for twenty or thirty seconds before slapping the sides of the crater. As it got dark you just sat there in wonderment at the glowing lava sprinkled over the black rock. Vila It came time to go home and we caught another ride across Tanna, this time I was in the back of a ute with about twelve skinny villagers. In Vila we just gorged ourselves on the cuisine, every time we walked up the road we would discover a new place to eat. They all have ...

... s have it easy at the village since we don't have much to: we don't have to go thru the process of gathering or catching food, preparing food, cleaning the dishes, washing our clothes, etc. We'll all learn those things during our stay at the village but we don't have to do them on a daily basis like the villagers do. For lunch all the mamas cook for the training group. It's a buffet feast and it's the meal that I most look forward to because there is so much ...

... of the picture, the waterfalls were set in lush green Rain forest, colorful trees, plants & flowers, with some kind of magical presence about the place. I wasn't disappointed, infact it was far more than I had ever imagined. The trek up through the tears was still an every day walking track for the local people to get between their villages. The view from the top of the Rain forest, high up on the cliff face, was simply breath taking. And the fact I had ...

... but The Powers That Be smiled upon us and held off the wind until later in the day. Back home now, remembering the trip to create this blog. It was a nice holiday but not amazing. I think if I had been older and richer, or perhaps if I had gone with my boyfriend and not my sister I would have enjoyed it more. It was relaxing and lovely but not awesome... I'm not entirely sure I would go back but it has definitely made me keen to see what other islands are like.

... teaching resources such as text books this can make teaching very difficult on these days. I have included some pictures of the classrooms, the kids (or the Bislama word - Pikinini). The classrooms are incredibly primitive, wooden boards and cement make up the shell and inside the floors are concrete with thin wood or cardboard separating two classrooms. This means that you can hear everything going on in the classroom beside you. This can often be distracting ...

... re bumped off it. Well, the next flight could be tomorrow but our flight to New Zealand would be missed and the next one isn't until Tuesday - no way do I want to get stuck here and be this far behind. They call and yell and make a fuss to the airline, so at about 4pm another one comes in, just for us, and as soon as it lands and unloads (they did bring a bunch of cargo and maybe some ...

Well the French did their best to keep me in New Caledonia with a strike at the airline. Fortunately for me Air Caledonia put me on a flight with Air Vanuatu. Unfortunately instead of 4pm the scheduled time of my original flight, my new flight didn't leave until 1.30 am this morning, arriving in Vanuatu at 2.30 am - ************venient time to find a place to stay. So I was forced to buy a £5 phone card to make ...