It seems like the whole island comes to the “airport” each time a plane lands on the outer islands of Vanuatu, for the teenagers it seems like their equivalent of hanging at the mall in my country! Photos of the faces of people I come across in my travels take me right back to that [...]
The unique 2500 year old ruin of the capital of the Achaemenid Empire? The site of the 1971 extravagant celebrations of 2500 years of monarchy which provoked a backlash that grew into the 1979 Islamic revolution? Are you with me yet? Possibly not, as the spectacular old Iranian city of Persepolis is not a site [...]
Fact: one broken down plane can halt the whole Air Vanuatu network. Silver lining: I get to spend a couple of unscheduled days on Santo, courtesy of Air Vanuatu. Other silver lining: the Matevulu Blue Hole, Santo. The Blue Holes of Vanuatu Santo has a number of blue holes, as do other islands in Vanuatu, [...]
When someone says “air taxi”, I have a mental image of some kind of private jet. Think again – how about a 1974 Cessna, which just squeezes in me and my five travelling companions, and one young, very professional, Kiwi pilot. The good news is I get the co-pilot’s seat. We are doing a quick [...]