This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you consent to the use of cookies. Read the Privacy Policy. Coming from the Solomon Islands. Where next? South to the capital of a nation of only 70 or so islands this time speaking English, French and Bislama as well as or so other languages. However, some serious issues to report to the trades descriptions people. Well it's certainly better than Moresby and Honiara , but 'stunning views round every crooked corner'?
Well, no. Maybe it will look prettier if the sun comes out. My Hitchhikers' Guide Wikipedia tells me that Port Vila or just Vila, like the football team- almost is the commercial centre and a tax haven.
As to sights? It offers: several memorials, two traditional totem poles and a monument representing a pig's tusk amongst others , a church, the City Hall and two wall paintings.
I'm dutifully trotting round, but there is little in town to excite my camera. It's grey here and really cool after my equatorial island hopping. And apart from the market which also got a mention it seems shabby and quiet. What on earth are all the other towns in the Pacific like then?
My guide also says that the people of Vanuatu were voted the happiest nation on earth. They look pretty bored and sleepy to me. Nearly everything is shut and even where shops are open, the assistants look far too flaked out to serve anyone.
