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We all new International flights would always start with the capital Port Vila fist. The exciting news Air Vanuatu is now getting ready for direct and connecting flights to our island paradise Espirtu Santo Northern Vanuatu. See bellow press release from Vanuatu’s Daly Post News Pager On the runway in Port Vila   Tourism Association looks forward to resumption of international...

6 Amazing Facts About Vanuatu That You Probably Didn’t Know Originally claimed by the United Kingdom and France in the 1880s, the archipelago was named New Hebrides and jointly managed through Anglo–French cooperation until the 1970s when an independence movement began and on 30 July 1980, the Republic of Vanuatu was founded. Celebrating 37 years of independence this week, Vanuatu has an incredible...

Vanuatu : History Vanuatu is a double chain of 13 principal and many smaller islands in the south-western Pacific Ocean. The islands are volcanic and coral in origin. They lie about 800 kilometres west of Fiji and nearly 1800 kilometres east of Australia. Around 65 of the islands are inhabited. Vanuatu has mountains and plateaus but is more famous for its coastal terraces and coral...

Aore Island Vanuatu When many people think of Vanuatu they think of the capital Port Vila and cruseships. What a most people don’t realise is Nothern Vanuatu and the Islands of Espiritu Santo and Aore are still an untouched paradise. Only 2.5 hours from Brisbane Australia via direct flight. The capital of Northern Vanuatu Luganville has grown over the last 4 years to bustling little town. With...

About Lapita Club Aore Island Vanuatu Tropical sunshine, blue skies, crystal waters and beautiful palm-fringed beaches are not merely fantasy but the stuff of everyday life at Lapita Beach Bar and Day Tours. For anyone able to done fins, masks and snorkel the colourful coral world awaits your own personal journey of discovery.  Your tour starts a St Michel Landing  Luganville,...

Family adventures for your holiday in VanuatuWow, who would have thought that such a small island could provide so many unique, breathtaking, incredible experiences! Vanuatu must be one of the best-kept secrets when it comes to great family holidays. There are just so many things that the whole family can do together and that everyone in the family will love and enjoy. We’ve picked out some of the best...

How to grow a coral garden by hand in Vanuatu Mention gardening in Vanuatu and what usually springs to mind are images of people tending their crops of taro, yams, and other edible foods, or maybe working their kava plots. Visit some islands across Vanuatu and you will discover a very different kind of gardening taking place: coral gardening. Instead of producing a crop for consumption or market, coral...

Airbus has secured its first A220 customer in the South Pacific with Air Vanuatu to operate the regional jet from 2020. Air Vanuatu signed a firm order for four A220s and purchase rights for a further four aircraft at the 2019 Avalon Airshow on Tuesday. It is the first time the carrier has purchased Airbus aircraft. It was expected to receive two A220s in 2020, with the remaining two...

Work on the construction of a Telecommunications submarine cable from Vanuatu to Solomon Islands is currently underway. Interchange Limited, a private company based in Vanuatu is funding the ICN2 cable to connect Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. Interchange Limited also owns and operates the ICN1 cable between Vanuatu and Fiji. In a statement to Island Sun, Simon Fletcher, CEO of Interchange Limited says...

Mathieu Hervillard, French investor and business owner, in this exclusive interview for Vila Times talks about doing business in Vanuatu, relationships between Western and Chinese investors in the Pacific, potential for growth in tourism, and what Vanuatu has to learn from Thailand and Mauritius to become a highly developed country fast. ‘My family has been investing in Vanuatu for decades’ –...