Pacific Insider
There's no time like 'island time'…

Email recently from Peter & Christine from Melbourne: We have just returned from a week in Vanuatu.  We particularly enjoyed the round island tour with Joel & the Black Island Cultural evening, both organised with Zilo from Sunset Bungalows.  Sheila, our morning host, was also excellent, as was all staff at Sunset. It was a [...]

Vanuatu has two unique post offices – one is the underwater post office on Hideaway Island where visitors can purchase a waterproof postcard and snorkel down to post it – the other is on the rim of Mt Yasur, the accessible active volcano on Tanna island (they thought about calling it ‘hotmail’ but that already [...]

Here’s a tip from Canadian travel writer David Stanley – on a Friday night (when pubs and nightclubs can stay open until 2:00am) find out what time the Air New Zealand flight arrives and head to the sea wall at the beginning (end?) of the runway – you’ll get a huge buzz having a jet [...]

In Vanuatu driving is on the right hand side of the road – it takes very little getting used to – just remember ‘passenger footpath side’ or ‘steering wheel in the middle of the road’.  Under the French-English joint rule condominium the authorities had a dilemma as to which side of the road to drive [...]