Vanuatu 2010

During my stay in Australia, I took a week to go visit the island nation of Vanuatu.  Only 30 years before I visited, it was still a Condominium of England and France.  Not much has changed since independence.  People still live their lives and no one stresses much about anything.  The brief week I spent in Vanuatu was wonderful but incredibly expensive.  If you get the chance, I strongly suggest you go.  Vanuatu is a wonderful place and not to be missed.

  • New Caledonia Overflight: The flight corridor to Vanuatu from Australia passes directly over New Caledonia.
  • Efate: The island of Efate holds the Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu.  I stayed for several days in Port Vila to do some SCUBA diving.
  • Tanna: Island hopping from Efate to Tanna, I encountered a very different land full of black volcanic soil, eruptions of magma, and a wonderful bungalow hotel.
    • Flight to Tanna: The flight to Tanna was on a 72 passenger plane.  The landing was a wee bit rough.
    • Ride to the Sunrise Bungalows: Tanna is not an island for small cars or people who don’t know how to 4×4.
    • Sunrise Bungalows: I wish I could have stayed more than one night at this hotel.  It was absolutely perfect.
    • Cook’s Hat Bay Beach: A gorgeous beach didn’t have a single person on it save for us.
    • Mount Yasur: I’ve been on several dormant and active volcanoes over the years but as of writing this, this is by far the best volcano I’ve yet visited.
    • Flight Back to Port Vila and Sydney: Saying goodbye to the easy life of the islands is hard.

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