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Around Vanuatu Tours has launched to lots of happy guests – you see, it’s all about the bloke running the operation. Cuddly George, to me, is the ‘real’ Vanuatu – a tour should be more than a bus and an itinerary – it’s should be about the guy taking you about – and, believe me, [...]

Vanuatu’s hospitality school offers amazing quality and value. Open for dinner on Thursdays there’s a choice of entrée, main & dessert but I’m going for an entrée of soupe froide à base de pommes de terre et de poireau (chilled cream of leek and potato soup). If your French is un peu or worse, pointing [...]

Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Andres, aka Mirasol and Maik (Mike) who married recently at Erakor Island Resort in Vanuatu. Here is the email from Mirasol: We wanted you to know that our trip and our wedding were fantastic and everything went smoothly. I will definitely recommend your company to my friends and colleagues. Thank [...]

The Vanuatu Paralympic Committee is a not-for-profit organisation that provides opportunities for people with disabilities in Vanuatu to participate in sports, both domestically and internationally. The VPC has been working with multiple Vanuatu National Sports Federations to provide sporting programs in archery, athletics, cricket and tennis. The VPC is supporting elite athletes with a disability [...]

Meet Pascal Guillet. Pascal owns and manages Vanuatu Ecotours and he’s a man who loves his work. Because he goes on bushwalks to waterfalls and river kayak safaris and mountain biking, he gets to stay extremely fit, visit beautiful, scenic spots off the beaten track and meet people who enjoy doing the kinds of things [...]

Here is a great deal for guests of couples who choose to marry at Erakor Island Resort – accommodation in two-bedroom self-contained apartments for $199 a night (up to four sharing). Lagoon Beach Resort is Erakor’s ‘sister’ resort and it can be handy for guests with children or couples on a budget who would like [...]

Couples who arrange their travel through Small Guide Travel in Australia or with Erakor Island Resort or Lagoon Beach Resort in Vanuatu can have a free wedding website! Here is a link to what the site could look like. All you have to do is shoot us some words (we can help you with the [...]

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 [...]

Fly away to Vanuatu with 20 or more of your family & friends for the BEST SPECIAL AVAILABLE in the South Pacific thanks to Erakor Island Resort. For $3950 you get the wedding ceremony, the reception dinner including beverages for twenty people and a seven-night honeymoon with romantic inclusions!  The fine print is that eight [...]

Kava comes from grating or grinding the root of the kava plant. It is a great stress reliever and is useful in healing urinary tract infections and stomach ailments. But how many shells should you have? Probably no more than three at first although some have a motto that kava is like breasts – one’s [...]