Vanuatu Sightseeing places

On Espiritu Santo Isle, just a brief fly from Bauerfield International Airport in Port Vila, the Leweton Cultural Village is one of the best places to get immersed in your own cultural life. Of course, the main attractions are the tribal ladies who are wading up to their waist in a basin of fresh air to play a magic reproduction of mystical waters like never seen before.

Unveil your inner sea virgin or the Aquarius with this classical feature, the only submarine mailroom in the worid that has now been fully renovated. Located directly off the coast of Hideaway Island, this water mailroom is staffed by a diving mailmaster, with an enclosed mailbox if you come outside opening time.

Like most Vanuatu beach, the waters are mild and ideal for snorkeling or scuba-dive, which means you can experience the colorful sea wall with its beautiful tropic reefs, sea creatures and game. There is a mail shed about 3 meters below the ground and a banner is hoisted when a scuba divers is on site.

Zyklon Pam: Vanuatu tourist sector recovers after the catastrophe

Vanuatu tourist industries are back, more than half of Vanuatu Arts reopens, some of them on the most affected island, just six week after tropical cyclone Pam ravaged most of the state. Employees and community members have been working around the clock to prepare small hostels for our clients and they are recovering more quickly than bigger one.

The Isle of Tanna was one of the islands most affected by Pam, which was torn apart by flora and torn apart by shelters. Tanna's Whitegrass Ocean Résort has now re-opened without a hint of the devastation that devastated the entire archipelago six months ago. Sunday mornings the light came on, me and my partners and all the employees here and the locals came in and we did 18-hour days or more to get up and running," said Wayne Fitzgerald, general director of the Pacific Beat resorts.

Over 100 persons worked for three whole week on the restoration of the bungalow and restaurants in the area. "Undoubtedly we have folks like the ones who just want to come in and do something to help, which is a great thing I think," Mr Fitzgerald said. "We' re already seeing an increase in our tourist numbers, we have visitors for the last three week, we're doing our volcanic trips, so, yes, we seem to be okay," he said.

"Tanna and Vanuatu tourist markets as a whole will continue to feel pain for a while, but it's safe for Tanna once they realize they can come back, and it's good if they come back here and do all the interesting things you can do here, the better for everyone.

The tourist industry accounts for about 40 percent of Vanuatu's economic activity and directly provides employment for more than 6,000 employees. Linda Kalpoi, managing director of the Vanuatu tourist portals, is very interested in the tourist comeback. "In Vanuatu most of the population would be dependent on travel, and it is therefore very important that travel returns, especially if farming has also been affected by the hurricane and will take several years, as we know, but travel may reverse in the next three month.

" Two large resort complexes, Holiday Inn and Irririki Island Resort, will stay in Port Vila for six month due to construction work. However, the two largest of Vanuatu, Santo and Malekula, have survived unharmed from Pam, while on Santo are going to go on as usual with icons like the spectacular sandy beaches of Champagne Beach and scuba dives on the shipwreck of USS President Coolidge.

Australia's government has suspended its trip alerts for Vanuatu, and Australians are being urged to come back by locals. "There is no question that Vanuatu is open to trade. We' re just a small village on a small isle, but Vanuatu works as a whole, and we work as usual," Mr Fitzgerald said.

"Most places in Port Vila work as usual, and I think if you feel like visiting Tanna, don't let the poor press put you off.