Vanuatu is so close to Australia, and few Pacific neighbours can offer as much diversity scenically and culturally as these amazing islands.
The happy people of Vanuatu are warm and welcoming, genuine and friendly and love nothing better than to show you their slice of Pacific paradise. It's typically tropical featuring colourful coral reefs, great white sandy beaches, lush dense forests harbouring waterfalls, rumbling volcanoes and custom villages. You are sure to fall in love with the islands that earned the accolade of Happiest Country on earth in 2006.
Families can re-discover being together again, where there are no real fast food shops, no massive shopping centres, and where the real values of life count. Today's busy couples looking for that quick 'recharge' in peace and tranquillity favour it, or for longer holidays there is sufficient activity to keep the most ardent activity lover happy. Snorkelers and divers relish the viz with a multitude of experiences under the sea, and Vanuatu boasts the world's only Underwater Post Office! Or indeed you can post your holiday mail from the ash plain on the summit of a volcano! There are experiences not found anywhere else in the world like the Pentecost Land Dive (the first bungy jump); the John Frums Cargo cult or the large and impressive Toka ceremony.
In Vanuatu, the unhurried pace will gently ensure you slow down from the frantic pace that a busy lifestyle can bring as nothing happens in an instant, and food may take longer to come; the shop assistant may get distracted and not come back... for a while. But Ni-Vanuatu are genuine and appreciative of you being in their country, and will be so happy if you experience their village and customs and try the local fruits and foods. So if you are looking for a gentle, peaceful place where the people and visitors alike can simply take the time to enjoy how blessed it has been by nature, Vanuatu is for you.
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