Vanuatu - Cruisers Love it

 

 

Vanuatu is a volcanic island chain in the south west Pacific Ocean, between Fiji and New Caledonia. There are about 80 islands with a total land area of 12,189 square kilometers reaching 900 km in a north-south direction.

The capital of Vanuatu is Port Vila,  on the island of Efate. As you can see from the space photograph of Efate, most of the islands are lush green tropical forest. Except for two urban areas, Port Vila and Luganville on Santo, the small population of people lives in rural villages.

What's special about Vanuatu?

Vanuatu is one of the few places on Earth where you can enter into a very ancient culture and contact your deepest roots and connections with the natural world and feel safe and comfortable at the same time.

Security, peace, a sense of wonder at the scenic splendor of nature, garnished with a culture that goes back thousands of years. These are some of the reasons people come from Europe, Asia, the United States, Australia and New Zealand to visit or live in Vanuatu.

The people of Vanuatu are Melanesians and have a very strong and enduring attachment to their islands and their environment. In the more remote islands the people still follow their ancestral traditions and their artwork, dances, music, and dress will transport you to an era before the concept of time began.

Their sense of community and culture give the ni-Vanuatu people a kind of peace and friendliness that extends to visitors and residents from other lands. They are, in a word, nice.

Most of the small and widely distributed population (there are about 200,000 people living in the Republic of Vanuatu) are natives living in villages with their extended families. The expatriate community is only a few thousand individuals, many of whom have been here for generations.

The ni-Vanuatu people are multilingual. Everyone speaks their own village language plus the universal Bislama, a English/French pidgin that you will quickly pick up. Most of the people also speak English and French.

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The Rocket Guide to Vanuatu

If you plan to cruise Vanuatu, you will enjoy the companion volume to the nautical guide. To find out more about this companion program, go to www.rocket-guide-vanuatu.com. This program-ROM based travel guide has a wealth of information about Vanuatu, not only in the capital island of Efate, but also every other Vanuatu island as well. You'll see high resolution aerial images of Efate and the other islands - invaluable for knowing where your real estate or commercial investment is located. The information on the Rocket Guide is on the Vanuatu Vacations website, too, but the images have been reduced and the navigation is much slower than on the program based Vanuatu information guide.

The guide also describes lots of great activities in Vanuatu, most of which are readily available in Port Vila, Efate, and Luganville, Santo, where tourism facilities are fairly well developed. If you want to Scuba dive in Vanuatu or go adventuring in the other islands of Vanuatu, you will either need to get a live aboard dive boat, or yacht charter, or limit your diving activities to Santo or Efate.

The most exciting adventure travel in Vanuatu is in the outer islands. The guide has information you'll need to know about adventure in vanuatu.

If you are planning a trip to vanuatu, you will want to know what vanuatu weather is like. And you will need to know details on visas to vanuatu, and vanuatu customs.

The Vanuatu currency is called the Vatu and there are three major banks in Vanuatu where travellers in Vanuatu can exchange money.

Whatever you need to know about vanuatu tourism, you will find it quickly in the program based travel guide to Vanuatu. The Rocket Guide to Vanuatu is the fastest, easiest, least expensive and most fun way to come up to speed on Vanuatu hotels and Vanuatu resorts.

There are some excellent restaurants in Vanuatu with the largest number of good restaurants in Port Vila.

International visitors arrive in Port Vila on the island of Efate. Generally a holiday in vanuatu starts with staying at one of the  accommodations in Resorts or Hotels in Port Vila or, if you wish an accommodation on Efate that is a little remote, you might select a resort out of the Port Vila central business district.

Accommodation, hotels and resorts in Tanna, Vanuatu also includes village style bungalows and resorts with modernized island style bungalows. The main attraction in Tanna, Vanuatu is the famous Yasur volcano.

Holiday makers who wish to visit the fascinating outer islands of Vanuatu then fly to Santo in the north or Tanna in the south. Vanuatu Hotels and Resorts in Espiritu Santo range from hotels and resorts in Santo to village style Vanuatu bungalows to elegant resorts on their own little Vanuatu private island paradises. Santo is a very large island with lots happening, but the many holiday in Santo to go diving in Santo, especially on the world's largest shipwreck, the SS President Coolidge.

There are taxis, buses, and car rentals in Port Vila, Vanuatu , and most of the larger islands. You will need to charter a boat, either a fishing boat or a yacht, to visit the smaller Vanuatu islands.