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Tue Mar 26 02:27:01 2002 (nmcfarl) Book: South Pacific Moon Guide Location: Port Vila, Vanuatu So we just had a work week (5 days) in Vanuatu. Because of the internal monopoly on air flight,the distance between the island (there ar no ferries) and our relitive lack of time, we were pretty much stuck on the main island (Efate) and pretty much the main town Port Vila. It was however pretty cool, we rented a little studio apartment on the fringe of town and got around by minbus. They run a cool system with minvans that will pick you up where ever and drop you of where ever ( if it's in the general direction that the other passangers are going ) for about 70 cents US pp. a good and very effiecent system. We basically hung, going to a couple of little tiny offshore islet to swim, tan , kayak and snorkle. We also went to the falls , nearby which was a good if overcomercialized day trip, and spent plenty of time wanding the fairly cosmopolitan city and cool local produce market where we bought a chunk of our food for the nights. The cheap Advocados and bananas became staples. We had much guacamole, (there was a specilties food shop which sold mexican) and banana sauce (on frnch toast for breakfast). It was very good food wise It was fairly good in all ways, the weather was rainy, but it seamed that every day had at least a bit of sun. And it was a fun place to be. The only drag was that we didn't have enough time to make it to the outer island where they still dress in penis gourds and grass skirt and live a very traditional life style. Still we saw how that life style met the city which was cool, and we listened to bislama, the local language. Bislama was pretty cool in itself, as its vocab, all 9000 words, is english based but the sintax is all local. So Number One is Numba Wan and they us the word blong (belong ) for all posesives including 'of' so you get the 'National Bank Blong Vanuatu' pretty cool. On the whole a very fun stop. |
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