Vanuatu Tourism Blog

This will add a buzz and excitement in your Tanna holiday. Not only will you be visiting the volcano thinking that's it, the end of your Tanna experience. Nope! There's more to it on the rugged, fire breathing island and a favorite is learning traditional cooking in coastal hot springs rising from underground volcanic activity.

Whilst parents are still trailing behind, these kids want to get home fast, prepare island spinach, grate coconut for mum to later do lunch, and play football while waiting.

Life is never boring in the islands. There is always something to keep the little ones including mums and dads occupied, and everyday its the gardens where villagers head to in the break of dawn to clean and harvest vegetables, legumes, fruits, nuts, and check their chicken & pig traps to see if they're lucky. Just an everyday thing the locals do in the villages. 

And now that Christmas is just around the corner, the fun and festive vibes are more visible as people start to decorate their place with coconut leaves, ornaments are usually bundles of green coconuts, bananas and pineapples hanging down from the kitchen beam, suger canes, gingers and lillies are tied to kitchen posts. 

Written by Grantlee Kieza for Qweekend. Published in News.com.au - IT takes less time to fly to Vanuatu than it does to reach Coffs Harbour or Hervey Bay – and once there, time melts away.  If there’s a more glorious sight on Earth than the one shimmering before me in this tropical paradise, I’m yet to see it. I’ve paid peanuts for the giant lobster mornay waiting for me on an oversized platter but the view from the beachside table is priceless. Luganville, on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu’s largest island, is little more than two hours by direct flight from Brisbane but it’s a world away from the cares and snares of the Western world. Read more.

 

Ben Bohane visits the infamous Nangol land-diving ceremony but finds there is plenty else to do on this tranquil island, so stay a few days.